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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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἄρτων οὐδ’ οἴνου τιμὴν ὀφείλομεν, ἀλλὰ χωρίων καὶ ἀνδραπόδων καὶ ἡμιόνων καὶ τρικλίνων καὶ τραπεζῶν, καὶ χορηγοῦντεσ ἐκλελυμένωσ πόλεσι, φιλοτιμούμενοι φιλοτιμίασ ἀκάρπουσ καὶ ἀχαρίστουσ. (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 9:1)

Related

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

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