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πολύτιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύτιμος πολύτιμον

Structure: πολυτιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: timh/

Sense

  1. very costly

Examples

  • εἶπεν ὁ Φίλιπποσ, ὦ παῖ, πάνυ γὰρ ἡδέωσ ἀκούω σου τὰ τοιαῦτα λέγοντοσ, οὐδὲ οἴκησιν ἀξιοῖσ κατεσκευάσθαι τὸν βασιλέα πρὸσ ἡδονὴν κεκοσμημένην χρυσῷ καὶ ἠλέκτρῳ καὶ ἐλέφαντι τοῖσ πολυτίμοισ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 42:2)

Synonyms

  1. very costly

Related

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

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