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ποσσίκροτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποσσίκροτος ποσσίκροτον

Structure: ποσσικροτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. struck with the foot

Examples

  • δώσω σοι Τεγέαν ποσσίκροτον ὀρχήσασθαι καὶ καλὸν πεδίον σχοίνῳ διαμετρήσασθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 35 10:6)
  • δώσω τοί Τεγέην ποσσίκροτον ὀρχήσασθαι καὶ καλὸν πεδίον σχοίνῳ διαμετρήσασθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 66 3:7)

Synonyms

  1. struck with the foot

Similar forms

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

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