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πολυτίμητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυτίμητος πολυτίμητον

Structure: πολυτιμητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ti_ma/w

Sense

  1. highly honoured, most honoured
  2. very costly

Examples

  • πολλοὺσ γοῦν πολυφίλουσ καὶ πολυτιμήτουσ ὄντασ ἓν παιδίον γενόμενον ἀφίλουσ καὶ ἀδυνάτουσ ἐποίησεν. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 4 18:1)
  • πολλοὺσ γοῦν πολυφίλουσ καὶ πολυτιμήτουσ ὄντασ ἓν παιδίον γενόμενον ἀφίλουσ καὶ ἀδυνάτουσ ἐποίησεν. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 4 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. very costly

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

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