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πολυκλήις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: polyklēis

Principal Part: πολυκλήις πολυκλήιδος

Structure: πολυκληιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: κλείς IV

Sense

  1. with many benches

Declension

Third 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

  • παῦροι δ αὖτε ἴσασι τρισεινάδα μηνὸς ἀρίστην ἄρξασθαί τε πίθου καὶ ἐπὶ ζυγὸν αὐχένι θεῖναι βουσὶ καὶ ἡμιόνοισι καὶ ἵπποις ὠκυπόδεσσι, νῆα πολυκλήιδα θοὴν εἰς οἴνοπα πόντον εἰρύμεναι: (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 100:1)
  • οὐ προϊδών, Θεότιμε, κακὴν δύσιν ὑετίοιο ἀρκτούρου, κρυερῆς ἥψαο ναυτιλίης, ἥ σε, δι Αἰγαίοιο πολυκλήιδι θέοντα νηί, σὺν οἷς ἑτάροις ἤγαγεν εἰς ἀίδην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5391)
  • "οὐ γάρ ς οὐδέ, ξεῖνε, δαήμονι φωτὶ ἐίσκω ἄθλων, οἱά῀ τε πολλὰ μετ ἀνθρώποισι πέλονται, ἀλλὰ τῷ, ὅς θ ἅμα νηὶ πολυκλήιδι θαμίζων, ἀρχὸς ναυτάων οἵ τε πρηκτῆρες ἐάσιν, φόρτου τε μνήμων καὶ ἐπίσκοπος ᾖσιν ὁδαίων κερδέων θ ἁρπαλέων: (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. with many benches

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

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