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πετραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πετραῖος πετραῖη πετραῖον

Structure: πετραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from pe/tra

Sense

  1. of a rock, living on or among the rocks, rock-
  2. of rock, rocky
  3. clave the rocks of Tempe

Examples

  • ἰὼ παντλάμων Νιόβα, σὲ δ’ ἔγωγε νέμω θεόν, ἅτ’ ἐν τάφῳ πετραίῳ αἰεὶ δακρύεισ. (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 16)
  • πετραίῳ στόνυχι χρίμψε σφυρόν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 27:15)

Synonyms

  1. of rock

Related

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

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