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πολυτρήρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυτρήρων πολυτρήρωνος

Structure: πολυτρηρων (Stem)

Sense

  1. abounding in doves

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Ὅμηρον γοῦν ὑπέρ τε τῶν Αἰθιόπων ὅσα ἐπύθετο καταχωρίσαι εἰσ τὴν ποίησιν καὶ περὶ τῶν κατ’ Αἴγυπτον καὶ Λιβύην, τὰ δὲ δὴ κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα καὶ τοὺσ σύνεγγυσ τόπουσ καὶ λίαν περιέργωσ ἐξενηνοχέναι, πολυτρήρωνα μὲν τὴν Θίσβην λέγοντα, Ἁλίαρτον δὲ ποιήεντα, ἐσχατόωσαν δὲ Ἀνθηδόνα, Λίλαιαν δὲ πηγῇσ ἔπι Κηφισσοῖο, καὶ οὐδεμίαν προσθήκην κενῶσ ἀπορρίπτειν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 6:12)
  • τῆσ μὲν οὖν ἱστορίασ ἀλήθειαν εἶναι τέλοσ, ὡσ ἐν νεῶν καταλόγῳ τὰ ἑκάστοισ τόποισ συμβεβηκότα λέγοντοσ τοῦ ποιητοῦ, τὴν μὲν πετρήεσσαν τὴν δὲ ἐσχατόωσαν πόλιν, ἄλλην δὲ πολυτρήρωνα, τὴν δ’ ἀγχίαλον· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 34:3)
  • συνηγορῶν δὲ τούτοισ Ὅμηρόν φησι τὴν μὲν Αὐλίδα καλεῖν πετρήεσσαν, ὥσπερ καὶ ἔστι, πολύκνημον δὲ τὸν Ἐτεωνόν, πολυτρήρωνα δὲ τὴν Θίσβην, ποιήεντα δὲ τὸν Ἁλίαρτον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 12:4)
  • τῆσ μὲν οὖν ἱστορίασ ἀλήθειαν εἶναι τέλοσ, ὡσ ἐν Νεῶν καταλόγῳ τὰ ἑκάστοισ τόποισ συμβεβηκότα λέγοντοσ τοῦ ποιητοῦ, τὴν μὲν πετρήεσσαν, τὴν δὲ ἐσχατόωσαν πόλιν, ἄλλην δὲ πολυτρήρωνα, τὴν δ’ ἀγχίαλον· (Polybius, Histories, book 34, chapter 4 2:1)

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

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