Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πολύτρητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύτρητος πολύτρητον

Structure: πολυτρητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. much-pierced, full of holes, porous

Examples

  • τὸ πλέον δ’ οὗτοσ ὑπὸ γῆσ ῥυεὶσ εἶτ’ ἀνακύψασ συνέπεσεν εἰσ ταὐτὸ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ποταμοῖσ, ἐμφαίνων ἅμα καὶ τὸ πολύτρητον τῆσ χώρασ καὶ τὸ εὔσειστον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 26:6)

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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