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πηλίκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηλίκος πηλίκη πηλίκον

Structure: πηλικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: interrog. of thli/kos, h(li/kos

Sense

  1. how great or large?
  2. of what age, of a certain age

Examples

  • πηλίκοσ ἦσθ’ ὅθ’ ὁ Μῆδοσ ἀφίκετο; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 4411)
  • πηλίκοσ ἦσθ’ ὅθ’ ὁ Μῆδοσ ἀφίκετο; (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 91)
  • εἰ δ’ ἐστίν, μείζων πολλῷ Διόσ, ὃσ Γανυμήδην ἔσχε μόνωσ, θεὸσ ὢν πηλίκοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 254 1:1)
  • εἰ δέ τισ εἰδέναι βούλεται πηλίκοσ εἰμὶ καὶ ποῦ κεῖμαι, νικάτω τι τῶν ἐμῶν ἔργων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 47 4:3)
  • Θεωρεῖτε δὲ πηλίκοσ οὗτοσ ᾧ δεκάτην Ἀβραὰμ ἔδωκεν ἐκ τῶν ἀκροθινίων ὁ πατριάρχησ. (PROS EBRAIOUS, chapter 7 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. how great or large?

Related

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

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