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πολύτρητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύτρητος πολύτρητον

Structure: πολυτρητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. much-pierced, full of holes, porous

Examples

  • εἰ δέ τισ ἐν ψήφοισ κατατήκεται, ἄλλον ἐπ’ ἄλλῳ σωρεύειν αἰεὶ πλοῦτον ἐπειγόμενοσ, οὗτοσ ὁποῖα μέλισσα πολυτρήτοισ ἐνὶ σίμβλοισ μοχθήσει, ἑτέρων δρεπτομένων τὸ μέλι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 41 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. much-pierced

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

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