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περίθετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίθετος περίθετον

Structure: περιθετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. put round, false hair

Examples

  • "τρυφῆσ, εἶθ’ ὕστερον ὕβρεωσ ἦλθον ὥστε πρῶτοι τὸ πρόσωπον ἐντριψάμενοι καὶ προκόμια περιθετά λαβόντεσ στολὰσ μὲν ἀνθινὰσ φορῆσαι, τὸ δὲ ἐργάσασθαι καὶ πονεῖν αἴσχιον νομίσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:25)

Synonyms

  1. put round

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

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