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πολιοκρόταφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολιοκρόταφος πολιοκρόταφον

Structure: πολιοκροταφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with gray hair on the temples, just beginning to be gray

Examples

  • οὐδεὶσ γὰρ χαίρει πολιοκροτάφῳ παρασίτῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 66 2:5)

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

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