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περιαιρετός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιαιρετός περιαιρετή περιαιρετόν

Structure: περιαιρετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. that may be taken off

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καίτοι ὅ γε Περικλῆσ ἐκεῖνοσ τὸν τῆσ θεᾶσ κόσμον, ἄγοντα τάλαντα τεσσαράκοντα χρυσίου ἀπέφθου, περιαιρετὸν ἐποίησεν, ὅπωσ, ἔφη, χρησάμενοι πρὸσ τὸν πόλεμον αὖθισ ἀποδῶμεν μὴ ἔλαττον· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 2 5:1)
  • ἁλισκομένου δὲ τοῦ τείχουσ ἐκδιδράσκει Λαχάρησ ἐσ Βοιωτούσ, ἅτε δὲ ἀσπίδασ ἐξ ἀκροπόλεωσ καθελὼν χρυσᾶσ καὶ αὐτὸ τῆσ Ἀθηνᾶσ τὸ ἄγαλμα τὸν περιαιρετὸν ἀποδύσασ κόσμον ὑπωπτεύετο εὐπορεῖν μεγάλωσ χρημάτων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 12:3)

Synonyms

  1. that may be taken off

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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