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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

  • μανὸσ γὰρ καὶ πολύτρητοσ ὁ πνεύμων, σπογγίῃ ἴκελοσ, οὐ χαλεπαίνων τῷ ὑγρῷ, ἄλλην ἀπ’ ἄλλησ εὐρυχωρίην ἀμείβοντι, μέσφι τῆσ τρηχείησ ἀρτηρίησ ἥκειν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 195)

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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