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πολύδακρυς

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύδακρυς πολύδακρυος

Structure: πολυδακρυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: da/kru

Sense

  1. of or with many tears
  2. much-wept, tearful
  3. much-weeping

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

  • Ἑρμιόνη δ’ ἀνέμοισιν ἀπορρίψασα καλύπτρην ἱσταμένησ πολύδακρυσ ἀνέστενεν ἠριγενείησ, πολλάκι δ’ ἀμφιπόλουσ θαλάμων ἔκτοσθε λαβοῦσα, ὀξύτατον βοόωσα τόσην ἀνενείκατο φωνήν· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1160)
  • ὣσ ἡ μὲν πολύδακρυσ ἐσ ἠέρα φωνήσασα, μητέρα μαστεύουσα, μάτην ἐπλάζετο κούρη. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1199)
  • πολύδακρυσ δ’ ἀφικόμην, χρόνιοσ ἰδὼν μέλαθρα καὶ βωμοὺσ θεῶν γυμνάσιά θ’ οἷσιν ἐνετράφην Δίρκησ θ’ ὕδωρ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 3:7)
  • ἑπτὰ κασιγνήτοιο τόδ’ ἑνδεκάτων πολύδακρυσ πέμπτον ἔχω μοίρησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 1282)
  • ἂψ δ’ ἐπὶ Πατρόκλῳ τέτατο κρατερὴ ὑσμίνη ἀργαλέη πολύδακρυσ, ἔγειρε δὲ νεῖκοσ Ἀθήνη οὐρανόθεν καταβᾶσα· (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 58:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or with many tears

  2. much-wept

  3. much-weeping

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

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