Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ῥοφητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥοφητός ῥοφητή ῥοφητόν

Structure: ῥοφητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from r(ofe/w

Sense

  1. that can be or is supped up

Examples

  • ᾠῶν δὲ ῥοφητῶν μνημονεύει Νικόμαχοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 50 3:7)
  • καὶ σιτία δὲ τὸ πλέον ὄρυζαν εἶναι ῥοφητήν. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 106:8)

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

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