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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

  • Ιἑρώνυμοσ δ’ ὁ περιπατητικὸσ περισπουδάστουσ φησὶν γενέσθαι τοὺσ τῶν παίδων ἔρωτασ ὅτι πολλάκισ ἡ τῶν νέων ἀκμὴ καὶ τὸ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἑταιρικὸν συμφρονῆσαν πολλὰσ τυραννίδασ καθεῖλεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 781)

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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