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πολύδενδρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύδενδρος πολύδενδρον

Structure: πολυδενδρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: de/ndron

Sense

  1. with many trees, abounding in trees

Examples

  • τὸν δὲ λάτον τὸν κλεινὸν ἐν Ἰταλίῃ πολυδένδρῳ ὁ Σκυλλαῖοσ ἔχει πορθμόσ, θαυμαστὸν ἔδεσμα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 88 1:1)
  • Ἴδαν ἐσ πολύδενδρον ἀνὴρ ὑλατόμοσ ἐλθὼν παπταίνει, παρεόντοσ ἄδην, πόθεν ἄρξεται ἔργου. (Theocritus, Idylls, 7)
  • οὐδ’ ἄν τισ αὐτὴν φαίη πολύκαρπον μὲν εἶναι καὶ πολύδενδρον καὶ πολύβοτον, ἐνδιαίτημα δ’ ἀνθρώποισ ὑπάρχειν ἄχαρι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 37 1:4)
  • μεταξὺ δὲ τῶν Ἐρυθρῶν καὶ τοῦ Ὑποκρήμνου Μίμασ ἐστὶν ὄροσ ὑψηλὸν εὔθηρον πολύδενδρον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 59:3)
  • μεγαλόδενδρόσ τε καὶ πολύδενδροσ ὑπερβαλλόντωσ ἐστὶ καὶ πάμφοροσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 8:2)

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

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