Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολυκέφαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυκέφαλος πολυκέφαλον

Structure: πολυκεφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kefalh/

Sense

  1. many-headed

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ ὁ Ἴστροσ τὰσ ἀρχὰσ ἀπὸ τούτων λαμβάνει τῶν ὀρῶν πολυσχιδῶν ὄντων καὶ πολυκεφάλων. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 18:10)

Synonyms

  1. many-headed

Related

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

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