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τρίκρανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίκρανος τρίκρανον

Structure: τρικραν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. three-headed

Examples

  • ταύτασ δὲ παραπλεύσαντί ἐστιν αὖθισ ἄκρα Κωλυεργία ἀνέχουσα ἐκ τῆσ ἠπείρου, μετὰ δὲ αὐτὴν νῆσοσ Τρίκρανα καλουμένη καὶ ὄροσ ἐσ θάλασσαν ἀπὸ τῆσ Πελοποννήσου προβεβλημένον Βούπορθμοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 12:2)

Synonyms

  1. three-headed

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

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