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πολυκλήις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυκλήις πολυκλήιδος

Structure: πολυκληιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: klei/s 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, οἱᾶ́ 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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