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σιδηρόνωτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: sidēronōtos

Principal Part: σιδηρόνωτος σιδηρόνωτον

Structure: σιδηρονωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. iron-backed

Examples

  • σιδηρονώτοις δ ἀσπίδος τύποις ἐπῆν γίγας ἐπ ὤμοις γηγενὴς ὅλην πόλιν φέρων μοχλοῖσιν ἐξανασπάσας βάθρων, ὑπόνοιαν ἡμῖν οἱᾶ πείσεται πόλις. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. iron-backed

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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