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ῥιζοφάγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥιζοφάγος ῥιζοφάγον

Structure: ῥιζοφαγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fagei=n

Sense

eating roots

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ῥιζοφάγος	ῥιζόφαγον
	Genitive	ῥιζοφάγου	ῥιζοφάγου
	Dative	ῥιζοφάγῳ	ῥιζοφάγῳ
	Accusative	ῥιζοφάγον	ῥιζόφαγον
	Vocative	ῥιζοφάγε	ῥιζόφαγον
Dual	N/A/V	ῥιζοφάγω	ῥιζοφάγω
Dual	G/D	ῥιζοφάγοιν	ῥιζοφάγοιν
Plural	Nominative	ῥιζοφάγοι	ῥιζόφαγα
	Genitive	ῥιζοφάγων	ῥιζοφάγων
	Dative	ῥιζοφάγοις	ῥιζοφάγοις
	Accusative	ῥιζοφάγους	ῥιζόφαγα
	Vocative	ῥιζοφάγοι	ῥιζόφαγα

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ῥιζοφάγος ῥιζοφάγου	ῥιζοφαγότερος ῥιζοφαγοτέρου	ῥιζοφαγότατος ῥιζοφαγοτάτου
Adverb	ῥιζοφάγως	ῥιζοφαγότερον	ῥιζοφαγότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

κατὰ γὰρ τὴν Αἰθιοπίαν τὴν ὑπὲρ Αἰγύπτου παρὰ τὸν Ἄσαν καλούμενον ποταμὸν παροικεῖ τὸ τῶν Ῥιζοφάγων ἔθνοσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 23 1:2)
παροικοῦσι δὲ τούτοισ οἱ ῥιζοφάγοι καὶ ἕλειοι προσαγορευόμενοι διὰ τὸ ἐκ τοῦ παρακειμένου ῥιζοτομοῦντασ ἕλουσ κόπτειν λίθοισ καὶ ἀναπλάττειν μάζασ, ἡλιάσαντασ δὲ σιτεῖσθαι· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 18:1)
εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ σπερμοφάγοι πλησίον, οἳ τῶν σπερμάτων ἐπιλιπόντων ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκροδρύων τρέφονται, σκευάζοντεσ παραπλησίωσ ὥσπερ τὰσ ῥίζασ οἱ ῥιζοφάγοι. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 18:4)
ἀνάγκη δὲ τοὺσ τοιούτουσ εὐτελεῖσ εἶναι τοῖσ βίοισ καὶ τὸ πλέον ῥιζοφάγουσ ἢ κρεοφάγουσ, γάλακτι δὲ καὶ τυρῷ τρεφομένουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 30:18)

Synonyms

eating roots
- ῥιζικός (of or belonging to the root)
- βουφάγος (ox-eating)
- βρωτήρ (eating)
- πρυμνός (cut off at the root)

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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eating roots

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