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πολύφθορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύφθορος πολύφθορᾱ πολύφθορον

Structure: πολυφθορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. utterly destroyed

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἷ δ’ ἱκάνομεν, φάσκειν Μυκήνασ τὰσ πολυχρύσουσ ὁρᾶν πολύφθορόν τε δῶμα Πελοπιδῶν τόδε, ὅθεν σε πατρὸσ ἐκ φονῶν ἐγώ ποτε πρὸσ σῆσ ὁμαίμου καὶ κασιγνήτησ λαβὼν ἤνεγκα κἀξέσωσα κἀξεθρεψάμην τοσόνδ’ ἐσ ἥβησ, πατρὶ τιμωρὸν φόνου. (Sophocles, episode 1:5)
  • τοῦτο δ’ ἤτοι ἀντὶ τοῦ πολυπόθητον κεῖται, ἢ χωρὶσ τοῦ δ πολυίψιον, ὡσ πολύφθορόν τε δῶμα Πελοπιδῶν τόδε φησὶ Σοφοκλῆσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 14:6)

Synonyms

  1. utterly destroyed

Derived

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

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