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τριώροφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριώροφος τριώροφον

Structure: τριωροφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/rofos

Sense

  1. of three stories or floors

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ ἄστυ αὐτό, ἐὸν πλῆρεσ οἰκιέων τριωρόφων καὶ τετρωρόφων, κατατέτμηται τὰσ ὁδοὺσ ἰθέασ τάσ τε ἄλλασ καὶ τὰσ ἐπικαρσίασ τὰσ ἐπὶ τὸν ποταμὸν ἐχούσασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 180 4:1)
  • εἰ δὲ βούλει τὰ τῆσ ῥᾳστώνησ καὶ τρυφῆσ, ἀντὶ γὰρ τῶν οἰκιῶν τῶν τριωρόφων καὶ τῶν τριήρων πάρεστιν ὁρᾶν νεὼν τὸν μέγιστον, τῶν μὲν ἄλλων πολλαπλασίονα, αὐτὸν δὲ τριπλοῦν τῇ φύσει. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:10)

Synonyms

  1. of three stories or floors

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

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