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πολύφημος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύφημος

Structure: πολυφημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fh/mh

Sense

  1. abounding in songs and legends
  2. many-voiced, wordy, the many-voiced, the agora (the "parliament")

Examples

  • Πολυφήμῳ γὰρ τῷ Κύκλωπι καὶ Γαλατείᾳ Κελτὸν καὶ Ἰλλυριὸν καὶ Γάλαν παῖδασ ὄντασ ἐξορμῆσαι Σικελίασ, καὶ ἄρξαι τῶν δι’ αὐτοὺσ Κελτῶν καὶ Ἰλλυριῶν καὶ Γαλατῶν λεγομένων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. many-voiced

Related

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

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