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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

  • ἔβασ ἔβασ, ὦ πτεροῦσσα, γᾶσ λόχευμα νερτέρου τ’ Ἐχίδνασ, Καδμείων ἁρπαγά, πολύφθοροσ πολύστονοσ μειξοπάρθενοσ, δάιον τέρασ, φοιτάσι πτεροῖσ χαλαῖσί τ’ ὠμοσίτοισ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, strophe 11)
  • ταύτησ ὁ δεινὸσ ἵμερόσ ποθ’ Ἡρακλῆ διῆλθε, καὶ τῆσδ’ εἵνεχ’ ἡ πολύφθοροσ καθῃρέθη πατρῷοσ Οἰχαλία δόρει. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral 11:4)

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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