Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύγλωσσος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύγλωσσος πολύγλωσση πολύγλωσσον

Structure: πολυγλωσς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: glw=ssa

Sense

  1. many-tongued, vocal, oft-repeated or loud-voiced

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

  • "τούτῳ γὰρ ἀρχὴν τῆσ καλῆσ ταύτησ καὶ ποικίλησ καὶ πολυγλώσσου σοφίασ ὁ πρὸσ τὴν ἀηδόνα λόγοσ τοῦ ἱέρακοσ παρέσχηκεν. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 14 12:4)
  • φανῶ δ’ ἐγὼ τούτοισι συμβαίνοντ’ ἴσα μαντεῖα καινά, τοῖσ πάλαι ξυνήγορα, ἃ τῶν ὀρείων καὶ χαμαικοιτῶν ἐγὼ Σελλῶν ἐσελθὼν ἄλσοσ εἰσεγραψάμην πρὸσ τῆσ πατρῴασ καὶ πολυγλώσσου δρυόσ, ἥ μοι χρόνῳ τῷ ζῶντι καὶ παρόντι νῦν ἔφασκε μόχθων τῶν ἐφεστώτων ἐμοὶ λύσιν τελεῖσθαι· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 4:5)
  • πολλῶν ἂν ἥκοισ, ὦ ξέν’, ἄξιοσ τυχεῖν, εἰ τήνδ’ ἔπαυσασ τῆσ πολυγλώσσου βοῆσ. (Sophocles, episode 9:12)

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

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