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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

  • "ὁ δὲ ναυτίλοσ καλούμενοσ, φησὶν Ἀριστοτέλησ, πολύπουσ μὲν οὔκ ἐστιν, ἐμφερὴσ δὲ κατὰ τὰσ πλεκτάνασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 104 1:3)
  • "πολύπουσ, φησί, τισ ὁ μὲν τρεψίχρωσ, ὁ δὲ ναυτίλοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 104 2:1)
  • οὐ διετίζει δ’ ἡ σηπία, καθάπερ οὐδ’ ὁ πολύπουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 123 2:2)
  • ὅθεν ὁ μὲν πολύπουσ εἰσ γῆν ἀνατρέχει καὶ τῶν πετριδίων ἀντιλαμβανόμενοσ σημεῖόν ἐστι πνεύματοσ ὅσον οὔπω παρόντοσ, ἡ δὲ τευθὶσ ἐξάλλεται, φεύγουσα τὸ ψῦχοσ καὶ τὴν ἐν βάθει ταραχὴν τῆσ θαλάττησ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 18 2:1)
  • διὰ τί τὴν χρόαν ὁ πολύπουσ ἐξαλλάττει; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 191)

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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