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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

  • ταῦτ’ ἄρα καὶ ὁ τῆσ φλεβὸσ χιτὼν εἷσ ὢν ἐκ πολυειδῶν ἰνῶν ἐγένετο καὶ τῶν τῆσ ἀρτηρίασ ὁ μὲν ἔξωθεν ἐκ τῶν στρογγύλων, ὁ δ’ ἔσωθεν ἐκ μὲν τῶν εὐθειῶν πλείστων, ὀλίγων δέ τινων σὺν αὐταῖσ καὶ τῶν λοξῶν, ὥστε τὰσ μὲν φλέβασ ταῖσ μήτραισ καὶ ταῖσ κύστεσιν ἐοικέναι κατά γε τὴν τῶν ἰνῶν σύνθεσιν, εἰ καὶ τῷ πάχει λείπονται, τὰσ δ’ ἀρτηρίασ τῇ γαστρί. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 118)

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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