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πολυπτόητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυπτόητος πολυπτόητη πολυπτόητον

Structure: πολυπτοητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptoe/w

Sense

  1. much scared, much-agitated

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οὐδὲν δ’ ὠφεληθεὶσ διὰ τὸ ταραχώδη καὶ πολυπτόητον αὐτῷ περὶ τοὺσ ἐπαίνουσ γεγονέναι τὴν ἀκρόασιν ἀπέρχεται τῶν τριῶν ἓν φερόμενοσ εἴρων γὰρ ἢ κόλαξ ἢ περὶ λόγουσ ἀπειρόκαλοσ; (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 13 9:1)

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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