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πλινθυφής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλινθυφής πλινθυφές

Structure: πλινθυφη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u(fai/nw

Sense

  1. brick-built

Examples

  • οἳ πρῶτα μὲν βλέποντεσ ἔβλεπον μάτην, κλύοντεσ οὐκ ἤκουον, ἀλλ’ ὀνειράτων ἀλίγκιοι μορφαῖσι τὸν μακρὸν βίον ἔφυρον εἰκῇ πάντα, κοὔτε πλινθυφεῖσ δόμουσ προσείλουσ, ᾖσαν, οὐ ξυλουργίαν· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. brick-built

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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