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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

  • "τὰ γὰρ ἐν ἀνθρώποισ αἴσχιστα ῥήματα, βωμολοχίασ, ληκυθισμοὺσ, ἀλαζονείασ, ἑταιρήσεισ, ἀνδροφονίασ, βαρυστόνουσ, πολυφθόρουσ, βαρυεγκεφάλουσ συναγαγόντεσ Ἀριστοτέλουσ καὶ Σωκράτουσ καὶ Πυθαγόρου καὶ Πρωταγόρου καὶ Θεοφράστου καὶ Ἡρακλείδου καὶ Ἱππάρχου καὶ τίνοσ γὰρ οὐχὶ τῶν ἐπιφανῶν; (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 2 2:2)
  • πάρεστι δ’ εἰπεῖν ἐπ’ ἀθλίοισιν ὡσ ἐρξάτην πολλὰ μὲν πολίτασ, ξένων τε πάντων στίχασ πολυφθόρουσ ἐν δαί̈. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 31)
  • τὴν τῆσδε πρῶτον ἱστορήσωμεν νόσον, αὐτῆσ λεγούσησ τὰσ πολυφθόρουσ τύχασ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode23)
  • καὶ τοὺσ διαλεκτικοὺσ πολυφθόρουσ, Πύρρωνα δ’ ἀμαθῆ καὶ ἀπαίδευτον. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 8:8)

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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