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τετράφυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετράφυλος τετράφυλον

Structure: τετραφυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fulh/

Sense

  1. divided into four tribes

Examples

  • μετὰ δὲ τετραφύλουσ ἐόντασ Ἀθηναίουσ δεκαφύλουσ ἐποίησε, τῶν Ιὤνοσ παίδων Γελέοντοσ καὶ Αἰγικόρεοσ καὶ Ἀργάδεω καὶ Ὅπλητοσ ἀπαλλάξασ τὰσ ἐπωνυμίασ, ἐξευρὼν δὲ ἑτέρων ἡρώων ἐπωνυμίασ ἐπιχωρίων, πάρεξ Αἰάντοσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 66 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. divided into four tribes

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

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