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πολύπους

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύπους

Structure: πολυποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: the form polu/pous is late

Sense

  1. the sea-polypus or octopus

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

  • ἀντὶ δὲ χειρῶν σιδηρῶν πολύποδασ μεγάλουσ ἐκδεδεμένουσ ἀλλήλοισ ἐπερρίπτουν, οἱ δὲ περιπλεκόμενοι τῇ ὕλῃ κατεῖχον τὴν νῆσον. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 41:5)
  • Θεόφραστοσ δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν μεταβαλλόντων τὰσ χρόασ τὸν πολύποδά φησι τοῖσ πετρώδεσι μάλιστα μόνοισ συνεξομοιοῦσθαι, τοῦτο ποιοῦντα φόβῳ καὶ φυλακῆσ χάριν, ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ ξηρῷ διατριβόντων ζῴων οὐ δέχεσθαί φησι τοὺσ πολύποδασ τὴν θάλατταν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 104 1:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ τῶν κατὰ τόπουσ διαφορῶν ὁ Θεόφραστοσ πολύποδασ οὐ γίνεσθαί φησιν περὶ Ἑλλήσποντον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 104 1:2)
  • ’ θαλάττῃ ἕπεσθαι πολύποδασ αὐτῷ πρὸσ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ποσειδῶνοσ. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 20 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. the sea-polypus or octopus

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

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