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πολυειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυειδής πολυειδές

Structure: πολυειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. of many kinds

Examples

  • καὶ ἡ συγγενικὴ δὲ φαίνεται πολυειδὴσ εἶναι, ἠρτῆσθαι δὲ πᾶσα ἐκ τῆσ πατρικῆσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 122:2)
  • καὶ τότ’ ἄν τισ ἴδοι αὐτῆσ τὴν ἀληθῆ φύσιν, εἴτε πολυειδὴσ εἴτε μονοειδήσ, εἴτε ὅπῃ ἔχει καὶ ὅπωσ· (Plato, Republic, book 10 385:1)
  • ἐν χωρίῳ μὲν ἐδόκουν εἶναι οὗπερ ἐτράφην, παρεῖναι δὲ Ῥουφῖνον, οὗ τὰ μεγάλα ἀναθήματα καὶ νεὼσ ὁ πολυειδήσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 7:13)

Synonyms

  1. of many kinds

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

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