Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

στακτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: στακτός στακτή στακτόν

Structure: στακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sta/zw

Sense

  1. oozing out in drops, trickling, dropping, distilling

Examples

  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ, ὅσα εὐώδη τρέφει που γῆ τὰ νῦν, ῥιζῶν ἢ χλόησ ἢ ξύλων ἢ χυλῶν στακτῶν εἴτε ἀνθῶν ἢ καρπῶν, ἔφερέν τε ταῦτα καὶ ἔτρεφεν εὖ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 59:3)

Derived

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

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