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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

  • διὸ καὶ τοῖσ πολυσάρκοισ ἐπολέμει, καί τινα τοιοῦτον ἀπήλασε τῆσ στρατιᾶσ εἰπὼν ὅτι μόλισ αὐτοῦ σκέπουσι τὴν γαστέρα ἀσπίδεσ τρεῖσ ἢ τέσσαρεσ, δι’ ἣν οὐχ ἑώρακεν αὑτοῦ τὸ αἰδοῖον. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 3 1:1)

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

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