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περισπούδαστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περισπούδαστος περισπούδαστον

Structure: περισπουδαστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spouda/zw

Sense

  1. much sought after, much desired

Examples

  • "χῆνέσ μοι κατὰ οἶκον ἐείκοσι πυρὸν ἔδουσιν ἐξ ὕδατοσ, χηνείων δὲ ἡπάτων περισπούδαστα δὲ ταῦτα κατὰ τὴν ̔ Ῥώμην μνημονεύει Εὔβουλοσ ἐν Στεφανοπώλισι λέγων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 3211)

Synonyms

  1. much sought after

Related

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

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