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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)
  • ἀρκτέον δ’ ἀπὸ τῆσ Εὐρώπησ, ὅτι πολυσχήμων τε καὶ πρὸσ ἀρετὴν ἀνδρῶν εὐφυεστάτη καὶ πολιτειῶν καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ πλεῖστον μεταδεδωκυῖα τῶν οἰκείων ἀγαθῶν, ἐπειδὴ σύμπασα οἰκήσιμόσ ἐστι πλὴν ὀλίγησ τῆσ διὰ ψῦχοσ ἀοικήτου. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 52:4)

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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