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τριγωνοειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριγωνοειδής τριγωνοειδές

Structure: τριγωνοειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. triangular-shaped

Examples

  • πάντων δ’ εὐηθέστατον τὸ τὴν χερρόνησον τριγωνοειδῆ φήσαντα τρεῖσ ἀποφήνασθαι τὰσ ἔξω πλευράσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 44:7)
  • εἰ μὲν τοίνυν τὰ στενὰ ταῦτα οὕτωσ ἦν συνηγμένα ὥστε μικρὸν ἀπολείπειν τοῦ συνάπτειν ἐπ’ ἀλλήλαισ τήν τε ἐπὶ Ἰσσὸν καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ Σινώπην πίπτουσαν πλευράν, συνεχώρει ἂν τριγωνοειδῆ λέγεσθαι τὴν χερρόνησον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 44:9)

Synonyms

  1. triangular-shaped

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

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