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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

  • "ἐστὶ δ’ ὁ μὲν κτεὶσ τραχυόστρακοσ, ῥαβδωτόσ, τὸ δὲ τῆθοσ ἀράβδωτον, λειόστρακον, ἡ δὲ πίνη λεπτόστομον, τὸ δὲ ὄστρεον παχύστομον, δίθυρον δὲ καὶ τραχυόστρακον, λεπὰσ δὲ μονόθυρον καὶ λειόστρακον, συμφυὲσ δὲ μῦσ, μονοφυὲσ δὲ καὶ λειόστρακον σωλὴν καὶ βάλανοσ, κοινὸν δ’ ἐξ ἀμφοῖν κόγχη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 35 2:2)

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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