Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύπικρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύπικρος πολύπικρον

Structure: πολυπικρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. very keen or bitter;

Examples

  • τῶν εἴ κεν πάντων ἀντήσομεν ἔνδον ἐόντων, μὴ πολύπικρα καὶ αἰνὰ βίασ ἀποτίσεαι ἐλθών. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 16 28:18)

Synonyms

  1. very keen or bitter

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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