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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

  • καίτοι τοῦ πολύποδοσ αἱ μεταβολαὶ βάθοσ οὐκ ἔχουσιν, ἀλλὰ περὶ αὐτὴν γίγνονται τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν, στυφότητι καὶ μανότητι τὰσ ἀπορροὰσ τῶν πλησιαζόντων ἀναλαμβάνουσαν· (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 9 1:1)
  • ἐμφανίζει δὲ καὶ Ἄλεξισ ἐν Παμφίλῃ τοῦ πολύποδοσ τὸ χρήσιμον λέγων ὧδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 3:6)
  • κοτύλη δὲ καλεῖται καὶ ἡ τοῦ ἰσχίου κοιλότησ, καὶ αἱ τοῦ πολύποδοσ ἐν ταῖσ πλεκτάναισ ἐπιφύσεισ παραγώγωσ κοτυληδόνεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 57 4:7)
  • τοῦ δὲ πολύποδοσ ἔργον ἐστὶν οὐ πάθοσ ἡ μεταβολὴ μεταβάλλει γὰρ ἐκ προνοίασ, μηχανῇ χρώμενοσ τοῦ λανθάνειν ἃ δέδιε καὶ λαμβάνειν οἷσ τρέφεται παρακρουόμενοσ γὰρ τὰ μὲν αἱρεῖ μὴ φεύγοντα τὰ δ’ ἐκφεύγει παρερχόμενα. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 27 12:2)
  • ὥσπερ αὖ πάλιν ὁ κάραβοσ ἐκείνων μὲν ἐν λαβαῖσ γενομένων περιγίγνεται ῥᾳδίωσ ἡ γὰρ ψιλότησ οὐ βοηθεῖ πρὸσ τὴν τραχύτητα τοῦ δὲ πολύποδοσ εἴσω τὰσ πλεκτάνασ διωθοῦντοσ ἀπόλλυται. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 27 14:1)

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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