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τρίστεγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίστεγος τρίστεγον

Structure: τριστεγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ste/gh

Sense

  1. of or with three stories, the third story

Examples

  • μετὰ δὲ τὸν εὔριπον ᾠκοδόμηνται στοαὶ τρίστεγοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 68 3:3)
  • περὶ δὲ τὰ πλευρὰ τοῦ κάτω ναοῦ δι’ ἀλλήλων ἦσαν οἶκοι τρίστεγοι πολλοί, καὶ παρ’ ἑκάτερον εἰσ αὐτοὺσ ἀπὸ τῆσ πύλησ εἴσοδοι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 250:1)
  • καθεζόμενοσ δέ τισ νεανίασ ὀνόματι Εὔτυχοσ ἐπὶ τῆσ θυρίδοσ, καταφερόμενοσ ὕπνῳ βαθεῖ διαλεγομένου τοῦ Παύλου ἐπὶ πλεῖον, κατενεχθεὶσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕπνου ἔπεσεν ἀπὸ τοῦ τριστέγου κάτω καὶ ἤρθη νεκρόσ. (, chapter 19 53:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or with three stories

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

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