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τρίκλινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίκλινος τρίκλινον

Structure: τρικλιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kli/nh

Sense

  1. with three couches, a dining-room with three couches, triclinium.

Examples

  • μετὰ δὲ τοὺσ θριάμβουσ στρατιώταισ τε μεγάλασ δωρεὰσ ἐδίδου καὶ τὸν δῆμον ἀνελάμβανεν ἑστιάσεσι καὶ θέαισ, ἑστιάσασ μὲν ἐν δισμυρίοισ καὶ δισχιλίοισ τρικλίνοισ ὁμοῦ σύμπαντασ, θέασ δὲ καὶ μονομάχων καὶ ναυμάχων ἀνδρῶν παρασχὼν ἐπὶ τῇ θυγατρὶ Ιοὐλίᾳ, πάλαι τεθνεώσῃ. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 55 2:1)

Related

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

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