Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πλατύπυγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλατύπυγος πλατύπυγον

Structure: πλατυπυγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pugh/

Sense

  1. broad-bottomed

Examples

  • πλατύπυγα δὲ ποιοῦσι καὶ ὑψίπρυμνα καὶ ὑψόπρῳρα διὰ τὰσ ἀμπώτεισ, δρυί̈νησ ὕλησ ἧσ ἐστιν εὐπορία· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 4 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. broad-bottomed

Similar forms

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

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