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πολύσκαλμος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: polyskalmos

Principal Part: πολύσκαλμος πολύσκαλμον

Structure: πολυσκαλμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. many-oared

Examples

  • Θῆριν τὸν τριγέροντα, τὸν εὐάγρων ἀπὸ κύρτων ζῶντα, τὸν αἰθυίης πλείονα νηξάμενον, ἰχθυσιληϊστῆρα, σαγηνέα, χηραμοδύτην, οὐχὶ πολυσκάλμου πλώτορα ναυτιλίης, ἔμπης οὔτ Ἀρκτοῦρος ἀπώλεσεν, οὔτε καταιγὶς ἤλασε τὰς πολλὰς τῶν ἐτέων δεκάδας: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2951)

Synonyms

  1. many-oared

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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