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πολυδίψιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυδίψιος πολυδίψιον

Structure: πολυδιψι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. very thirsty

Examples

  • πολυδίψιον δὲ τὸ Ἄργοσ, ὡσ οἶσθα· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 23)
  • διόπερ καὶ τὸ Ἄργοσ πολυδίψιον ὁ ποιητὴσ ἔφη, τὸ πολυπόθητον διὰ τὸν χρόνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 432)
  • διόπερ καὶ τὸ Ἄργοσ πολυδίψιον ὁ ποιητὴσ ἔφη, τὸ πολυπόθητον διὰ τὸν χρόνον . (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 225)
  • καί κεν ἐλέγχιστοσ πολυδίψιον Ἄργοσ ἱκοίμην· (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 15:12)
  • αἰτιῶνται δὲ τῆσ ἀπάτησ τὸ καί κεν ἐλέγχιστοσ πολυδίψιον Ἄργοσ ἱκοίμην. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 14:5)

Synonyms

  1. very thirsty

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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