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πλατύπυγος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: platypygos

Principal Part: πλατύπυγος πλατύπυγον

Structure: πλατυπυγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πυγή

Sense

  1. broad-bottomed

Examples

  • πλατύπυγα δὲ ποιοῦσι καὶ ὑψίπρυμνα καὶ ὑψόπρῳρα διὰ τὰς ἀμπώτεις, δρυΐνης 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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