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περιπτυχής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιπτυχής περιπτυχές

Structure: περιπτυχη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: periptu/ssw

Sense

  1. folded round
  2. fallen around, upon)

Examples

  • ἀλλά νιν περιπτυχεῖ φάρει καλύψω τῷδε παμπήδην, ἐπεὶ οὐδεὶσ ἄν, ὅστισ καὶ φίλοσ, τλαίη βλέπειν φυσῶντ’ ἄνω πρὸσ ῥῖνασ ἔκ τε φοινίασ πληγῆσ μελανθὲν αἷμ’ ἀπ’ οἰκείασ σφαγῆσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 1 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. folded round

  2. fallen around

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

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