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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

  • τινὲσ καλοῦσι, καὶ χοίρων καὶ τῶν περισπουδάστων φασιανικῶν ὀρνίθων, περὶ λαχάνων οὖν πρότερον ἐκθέμενόσ σοι καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων μετὰ ταῦτα διηγήσομαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 7 2:1)
  • ταῦτα δὲ τὰ βρώματα ὅτι πολλῷ ἡδίω ἐστὶ τῶν παρὰ σοὶ περισπουδάστων κόττα καὶ λέπιδι,2 οἱ πειραθέντεσ ἴσασι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 88 3:5)

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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