Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τριλοφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριλοφία

Structure: τριλοφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a triple crest

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὡσ ἔστη πρὸ τῶν θυρῶν τοῦ ἱεροῦ καὶ κατέβλεψεν εἰσ τοὺσ μαχομένουσ ἄνωθεν ἔχουσα τὴν τριλοφίαν, αὐτοῖσ τε τοῖσ πολίταισ θέαμα σεμνότερον ἢ κατ’ ἄνθρωπον ἐφάνη, καὶ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ φάσμα θεῖον ὁρᾶν δοκοῦσι φρίκην ἐνέβαλε καὶ θάμβοσ, ὥστε μηδένα τρέπεσθαι πρὸσ ἀλκήν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 32 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a triple crest

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

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