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πολυμελής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυμελής πολυμελές

Structure: πολυμελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: me/los

Sense

  1. with many members

Examples

  • ὕβρισ δὲ δὴ πολυώνυμον ‐ πολυμελὲσ γὰρ καὶ πολυμερέσ ‐ καὶ τούτων τῶν ἰδεῶν ἐκπρεπὴσ ἣ ἂν τύχῃ γενομένη, τὴν αὑτῆσ ἐπωνυμίαν ὀνομαζόμενον τὸν ἔχοντα παρέχεται, οὔτε τινὰ καλὴν οὔτ’ ἐπαξίαν κεκτῆσθαι. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 74:2)

Synonyms

  1. with many members

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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