Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

περίκρημνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίκρημνος περίκρημνον

Structure: περικρημν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. steep all round

Examples

  • ἁπλῷ τείχει περίκρημνα ὄντα, τὰ δὲ πρὸσ μεσημβρίαν ἐσ ἤπειρον, ἔνθα καὶ ἡ Βύρσα ἦν ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐχένοσ, τριπλῷ τείχει. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. steep all round

Related

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

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