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πολύσαρκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύσαρκος πολύσαρκον

Structure: πολυσαρκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sa/rc

Sense

  1. very fleshy

Examples

  • μήτε γὰρ ὑψηλὸσ ἄγαν ἔστω καὶ πέρα τοῦ μετρίου ἐπιμήκησ μήτε ταπεινὸσ καὶ νανώδησ τὴν φύσιν, ἀλλ’ ἔμμετροσ ἀκριβῶσ, οὔτε πολύσαρκοσ, ἀπίθανον γάρ, οὔτε λεπτὸσ ἐσ ὑπερβολήν· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 75:1)
  • σὺ δὲ ὁ παχύσ, ὁ πολύσαρκοσ τίσ ὢν τυγχάνεισ; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 8:2)

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

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