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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πολύπους πολύποδε πολύποδες
Genitive πολύποδος πολυπόδοιν πολυπόδων
Dative πολύποδι πολυπόδοιν πολύποσιν*
Accusative πολύποδα πολύποδε πολύποδας
Vocative πολύπους πολύποδε πολύποδες

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

  • τὸ δὲ τῶν μαλακίων γένοσ, οἱο͂ν πολυπόδων τε καὶ σηπιῶν καὶ τῶν τοιούτων, τὴν μὲν σάρκα δύσπεπτον ἔχει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 54 2:6)
  • εἴδη δ’ ἐστὶ πολυπόδων ἑλεδώνη, πολυποδίνη, βολβιτίνη, ὀσμύλοσ, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ καὶ Σπεύσιπποσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1071)

Synonyms

  1. the sea-polypus or octopus

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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