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πολύβοσκος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: polyboskos

Principal Part: πολύβοσκος πολύβοσκον

Structure: πολυβοσκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: βόσκω

Sense

  1. much-nourishing

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ πολιᾶς εἶπέ τιν αὐτὸς ὁρᾶν ἔνδον θαλάσσας αὐξομέναν πεδόθεν πολύβοσκον γαῖαν ἀνθρώποισι καὶ εὔφρονα μήλοις. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 7 21:3)

Synonyms

  1. much-nourishing

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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