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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

  • ἐπιπορποῦνται δὲ σάγουσ ῥαβδωτοὺσ ἐν μὲν τοῖσ χειμῶσι δασεῖσ, κατὰ δὲ τὸ θέροσ ψιλούσ, πλινθίοισ πυκνοῖσ καὶ πολυανθέσι διειλημμένουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 30 1:2)

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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