Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πέτρινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πέτρινος πέτρινη πέτρινον

Structure: πετριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/tra

Sense

  1. of rock, rocky

Examples

  • καὶ κύκλῳ δ’ ἡ χερρόνησοσ προβέβληται ῥαχιώδεισ ἀκτὰσ ἐχούσασ καὶ κοιλάδασ τινὰσ ὡσανεὶ βόθρουσ πετρίνουσ, οὓσ καλοῦσι χοινικίδασ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 22:8)

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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