Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύκλαυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύκλαυστος πολύκλαυστη πολύκλαυστον

Structure: πολυκλαυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. much lamented
  2. much lamenting

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ ῥ’ ἱκάνοντο πολυκλαύστῳ ἐνὶ τύμβῳ, καὶ τότε δὴ λίσσοντο κυλινδόμεναι παρὰ ποσσὶν Χριστὸν παμμεδέοντα κασίγνηταί τε ἔται τε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 40 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. much lamented

  2. much lamenting

Similar forms

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

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