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ῥοφητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥοφητικός ῥοφητική ῥοφητικόν

Structure: ῥοφητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from r(ofe/w

Sense

  1. drawing in, absorbing

Examples

  • ἔτι δὲ τῶν ἀναφερομένων ἀτμῶν ἐπισπαστικοί τινέσ εἰσι πρὸσ ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ οἱο͂ν ῥοφητικοὶ τοῦ ὑπερπετοῦσ, ὡσ τὸ ἤλεκτρον τοῦ ἀχύρου καὶ ἡ σιδηρῖτισ τοῦ σιδήρου· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 76:4)

Synonyms

  1. drawing in

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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