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πολύκαρπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύκαρπος πολύκαρπον

Structure: πολυκαρπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. rich in fruit

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ σπέρμα ὅτῳ πολὺ καὶ ῥυῶδεσ περὶ τὸν μυελὸν γίγνεται καὶ καθαπερεὶ δένδρον πολυκαρπότερον τοῦ συμμέτρου πεφυκὸσ ᾖ, πολλὰσ μὲν καθ’ ἕκαστον ὠδῖνασ, πολλὰσ δ’ ἡδονὰσ κτώμενοσ ἐν ταῖσ ἐπιθυμίαισ καὶ τοῖσ περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα τόκοισ, ἐμμανὴσ τὸ πλεῖστον γιγνόμενοσ τοῦ βίου διὰ τὰσ μεγίστασ ἡδονὰσ καὶ λύπασ, νοσοῦσαν καὶ ἄφρονα ἴσχων ὑπὸ τοῦ σώματοσ τὴν ψυχήν, οὐχ ὡσ νοσῶν ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἑκὼν κακὸσ δοξάζεται· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 453:2)

Synonyms

  1. rich in fruit

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

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