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περιρρηδής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: perirrēdēs

Principal Part: περιρρηδής περιρρηδές

Structure: περιρρηδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: The deriv. of -ρήδης is uncertain; perh. from ῥέω.

Sense

  1. doubled round or over

Examples

  • ἤριπε δ ἀμφοτέροισι περιρρηδὴς κεράεσσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 8:22)
  • ἐκ δ ἄρα χειρὸς φάσγανον ἧκε χαμᾶζε, περιρρηδὴς δὲ τραπέζῃ κάππεσεν ἰδνωθείς, ἀπὸ δ εἴδατα χεῦεν ἔραζε καὶ δέπας ἀμφικύπελλον: (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 13:3)

Synonyms

  1. doubled round or over

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

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