Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τριέλικτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριέλικτος τριέλικτον

Structure: τριελικτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. thrice coiled

Examples

  • ἄστρων γὰρ ψαύει καρχήσια καὶ τριελίκτουσ θώρακασ μεγάλων ἐντὸσ ἔχει νεφέων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. thrice coiled

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

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