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τορευτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τορευτός τορευτή τορευτόν

Structure: τορευτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from toreu/w

Sense

  1. worked in relief, elaborate

Examples

  • Μένανδροσ δὲ πού φησι καὶ ποτήριον τορνευτὸν καὶ τορευτά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 174)
  • Ἀπολλόδωροσ δ’ ὁ Γελῷοσ ἐν Φιλαδέλφοισ ἢ Ἀποκαρτεροῦντί φησιν ἐφεξῆσ στρώματ’, ἀργυρώματα, θηρίκλειοι καὶ τορευτὰ πολυτελῆ ποτήρια ἕτερα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 441)

Related

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

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