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πολύθυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύθυρος πολύθυρον

Structure: πολυθυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. with many doors or openings
  2. with many leaves

Examples

  • δέλτου μὲν αἵδε πολύθυροι διαπτυχαί, ξένοι, πάρεισιν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 5:1)
  • ἑνὸσ ὄντοσ λιμένοσ ὅμωσ λέγουσι λιμένασ εἰσ Ἀχαϊκούσ καὶ δέλτου μὲν αἵδε πολύθυροι διαπτυχαί. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 6 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. with many leaves

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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