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πολυσαρκία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυσαρκία

Structure: πολυσαρκι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from polu/sarkos

Sense

  1. fleshiness, plumpness

Declension

First 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

  • τουσι παρὰ τὴν ὁδόν, ὅπου τὰ σαρκοβόρα θηρία μὴ πρόσεισιν οἳ τ’ ἄρρενεσ, ὅταν αἴσθωνται βαρεῖσ ὑπὸ πιμελῆσ καὶ πολυσαρκίασ ὄντεσ, ἐκτοπίζουσι σῴζοντεσ αὑτοὺσ τῷ λανθάνειν, ὅτε τῷ φεύγειν οὐ πεποίθασιν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 16 13:1)

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

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