Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολυφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυφόρος πολυφόρον

Structure: πολυφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. bearing much
  2. that will bear much water, that wants tempering

Examples

  • παμφόρου δ’ οὔσησ αὐτῆσ, ὡσαύτωσ δὲ καὶ πολυφόρου, διπλασιάζεται τὰ εὐτυχήματα ταῦτα τῷ ἐκκομισμῷ· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 8:2)

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

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