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πλατύνωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλατύνωτος πλατύνωτον

Structure: πλατυνωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. broad-backed

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ τί χρὴ ῥίνησ λόγον ἢ πλατυνώτου λειοβάτου ποιεῖσθαι; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 112 1:1)
  • εἰσ τοὺσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ κατὰ τυμβωρύχων Τυμβολέται, γάστρωνεσ, ἐρευγόβιοι, πλατύνωτοι, μέχρι τίνοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 1721)

Synonyms

  1. broad-backed

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

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