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πολυάνωρ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυάνωρ πολυάνορος

Structure: πολυανορος (Stem)

Sense

  1. with many men, much-frequented
  2. of many husbands

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐπὶ δ’ ἔσεισεν κόμαν, παῦσαι νυχίουσ ἐνοπάσ, ἀπὸ δ’ ἀλαθοσύναν νυκτωπὸν ἐξεῖλεν βροτῶν, καὶ τιμὰσ πάλιν θῆκε Λοξίᾳ, πολυάνορι δ’ ἐν ξενόεντι θρόνῳ θάρση βροτοῖσ θεσφάτων ἀοιδαῖσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 16)
  • ταχὺ δὴ πολυάνορα τάνδε πόλιν καλεῖ τισ ἀνθρώπων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Choral, strophe 11)
  • οὕτω δ’ Ἀτρέωσ παῖδασ ὁ κρείσσων ἐπ’ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ πέμπει ξένιοσ Ζεὺσ πολυάνοροσ ἀμφὶ γυναικὸσ πολλὰ παλαίσματα καὶ γυιοβαρῆ γόνατοσ κονίαισιν ἐρειδομένου διακναιομένησ τ’ ἐν προτελείοισ κάμακοσ θήσων Δαναοῖσι Τρωσί θ’ ὁμοίωσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. with many men

  2. of many husbands

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

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