Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολυσύλλαβος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυσύλλαβος πολυσύλλαβον

Structure: πολυσυλλαβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sullabh/

Sense

  1. polysyllabic

Examples

  • ταῖσ δὲ πολυσυλλάβοισ, ἡλίκαι ποτ’ ἂν ὦσιν, ἡ τὸν ὀξὺν τόνον ἔχουσα μία ἐν πολλαῖσ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ βαρείαισ ἔνεστιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1129)

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

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