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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

  • οἱ μὲν οὖν, τῶν σκαληνῶν καὶ τριγωνοειδῶν σχηματισμῶν ἐν τοῖσ σώμασι κειμένων, τὸ ῥιγοῦν καὶ τρέμειν καὶ φρίττειν καὶ ὅσα συγγενῆ τοῖσ πάθεσι τούτοισ ὑπὸ τραχύτητοσ ἐγγίγνεσθαι λέγοντεσ, εἰ καὶ τοῖσ κατὰ μέροσ διαμαρτάνουσι, τὴν γοῦν ἀρχὴν ὅθεν δεῖ λαμβάνουσι δεῖ γὰρ ὥσπερ ἀφ’ ἑστίασ τῆσ τῶν ὅλων οὐσίασ ἄρχεσθαι τὴν ζήτησιν. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 8 1:1)

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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