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περίδρομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίδρομος περίδρομον

Structure: περιδρομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: peridramei=n

Sense

  1. running round
  2. going about, roaming
  3. that can be run round, standing apart, detached

Examples

  • ὡσ ἡδὺσ ἐν πόρπακι σῷ κεῖται τύποσ ἴτυόσ τ’ ἐν εὐτόρνοισι περιδρόμοισ ἱδρώσ, ὃν ἐκ μετώπου πολλάκισ πόνουσ ἔχων ἔσταζεν Ἕκτωρ προστιθεὶσ γενειάδι. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 3:14)

Synonyms

  1. running round

  2. going about

Related

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

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