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πολύσπορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύσπορος πολύσπορον

Structure: πολυσπορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spei/rw

Sense

  1. very fruitful

Examples

  • ὦ λέκτρα τἀμὰ δυστυχῆ τε καὶ γάμοι, οἷσ ἦλθον ἐσ μέλαθρον Ἕκτορόσ ποτε, οὐ σφάγιον υἱὸν Δαναί̈δαισ τέξουσ’ ἐμόν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τύραννον Ἀσιάδοσ πολυσπόρου. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. very fruitful

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

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