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περιπευκής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: peripeukēs

Principal Part: περιπευκής περιπευκές

Structure: περιπευκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: πεύκη

Sense

  1. very sharp, keen or painful

Examples

  • ἔνθά μιν ἐκτανύσας ἐκ μηροῦ τάμνε μαχαίρῃ ὀξὺ βέλος περιπευκές, ἀπ αὐτοῦ δ αἷμα κελαινὸν νίζ ὕδατι λιαρῷ, ἐπὶ δὲ ῥίζαν βάλε πικρὴν χερσὶ διατρίψας ὀδυνήφατον, ἥ οἱ ἁπάσας ἔσχ ὀδύνας: (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 71:3)

Synonyms

  1. very sharp

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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