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τρικόλωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρικόλωνος τρικόλωνον

Structure: τρικολων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kolw/nh

Sense

  1. three-hilled

Examples

  • ὠνομάσθησαν δὲ καὶ ἀπὸ Κρώμου Κρῶμοι, καὶ Χαρισία Χαρίσιον ἔχουσα οἰκιστήν, Τρικόλωνοι δὲ ἀπὸ Τρικολώνου, καὶ ἀπὸ μὲν Περαίθου Περαιθεῖσ, Ἀσέα δὲ ἀπὸ Ἀσεάτα καὶ <ἀπὸ Λυκέωσ> Λυκόα καὶ Σουματία ἀπὸ Σουματέωσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 6:2)
  • ἐκ δὲ Εὐτρησίων Τρικόλωνοι καὶ Ζοίτιον καὶ Χαρισία καὶ Πτολέδερμα καὶ Κναῦσον καὶ Παρώρεια· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 5:3)
  • πόλισ δὲ ἦσαν καὶ οἱ Τρικόλωνοί ποτε· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. three-hilled

Related

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

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