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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

  • "ἐγὼ παραβάλλομαι καὶ προκινδυνεύω" καλόν, ὦ Ζεῦ, κίνδυνον οὐ γάρ, ὡσ Πελοπίδασ ὑπὲρ τῆσ Θηβῶν ἐλευθερίασ ἢ ὡσ Ἁρμόδιοσ καὶ Ἀριστογείτων ὑπὲρ τῆσ Ἀθηναίων, προεκινδύνευσεν ὁ φιλόσοφοσ ὠμῷ πολύποδι διαμαχόμενοσ, ἵνα τὸν βίον ἀποθηριώσῃ; (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 6 1:1)
  • τοῦτο δὴ καὶ τοὺσ πανουργίᾳ καὶ δεινότητι ὑπερφέροντασ ἔχειν τὸ ἐπιτήδευμα λέγουσιν, ὡσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ λαθεῖν καὶ διαφυγεῖν τοὺσ πλησίον ἑαυτοὺσ ἀεὶ ἀπεικάζειν πολύποδι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 19 4:2)

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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