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ῥαβδωτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥαβδωτός ῥαβδωτή ῥαβδωτόν

Structure: ῥαβδωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: as if from r(abdo/w

Sense

  1. striped

Examples

  • "κράτιστοι δὲ οἱ Ἐφέσιοι καὶ τούτων οἱ φθινοπωρινοί, αἱ δὲ μυίσκαι τῶν μυῶν οὖσαι μικρότεραι γλυκεῖαί τε καὶ εὔχυλοί εἰσι προσέτι τε καὶ τρόφιμοι, οἱ δὲ σωλῆνεσ μὲν πρόσ τινων καλούμενοι, πρόσ τινων δὲ αὐλοὶ καὶ δόνακεσ καὶ ὄνυχεσ, πολύχυλοι καὶ κακόχυλοι, κολλώδεισ, καὶ οἱ μὲν ἄρρενεσ αὐτῶν ῥαβδωτοί εἰσι καὶ οὐ μονοχρώματοι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. striped

Related

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

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