Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τμητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τμητός τμητή τμητόν

Structure: τμητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/mnw

Sense

  1. cut, shaped by cutting
  2. that can be cut or severed

Examples

  • ἐν δ’ ἑλίσσεται τμητοῖσ ἱμᾶσι· (Sophocles, episode 7:7)
  • ἦ καὶ χαλάργοισ ἐν ἁμίλλαισ οὕτωσ, ὡσ κείνῳ δυστάνῳ, τμητοῖσ ὁλκοῖσ ἐγκῦρσαι; (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. cut

  2. that can be cut or severed

Derived

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

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