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τετράτρυφος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: tetratryphos

Principal Part: τετράτρυφος τετράτρυφον

Structure: τετρατρυφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: θρύπτω

Sense

  1. broken into four pieces

Examples

  • τοῖς δ ἅμα τεσσαρακονταετὴς αἰζηὸς ἕποιτο ἄρτον δειπνήσας τετράτρυφον, ὀκτάβλωμον, ὃς ἔργου μελετῶν ἰθεῖάν κ αὔλακ ἐλαύνοι, μηκέτι παπταίνων μεθ ὁμήλικας, ἀλλ ἐπὶ ἔργῳ θυμὸν ἔχων: (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:18)

Synonyms

  1. broken into four pieces

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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