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πολυσχήμων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυσχήμων πολυσχήμον

Structure: πολυσχημων (Stem)

Etym.: sxh=ma

Sense

  1. of many shapes, varied in form

Examples

  • ἅπασαι δ’ ἐκ τῆσ ἐντὸσ παραλίασ ἔχουσι τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ τε πολυσχήμονοσ καὶ τοῦ μή, ἡ δ’ ἐκτὸσ πλὴν τῶν λεχθέντων κόλπων ἁπλῆ καὶ χλαμυδοειδήσ ἐστιν, ὡσ εἶπον, τὰσ δ’ ἄλλασ ἐν μικρῷ διαφορὰσ ἐατέον· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 36:6)

Synonyms

  1. of many shapes

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

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