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περιφερής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιφερής περιφερές

Structure: περιφερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: perife/romai

Sense

  1. moving round, surrounding
  2. surrounded by
  3. round, circular, spherical, globular, rounded

Examples

  • οὕτω δὲ κἀκείνην ἀπεργάζεσθαι δύο κόλπουσ, ὧν ὁ ἑσπέριοσ πολὺ θατέρου περιφερέστερόσ ἐστιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 44:11)

Synonyms

  1. moving round

  2. surrounded by

  3. round

Similar forms

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

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