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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

  • ἐπισυνάγων ποιήσεισ τὴν κιβωτὸν καὶ εἰσ πῆχυν συντελέσεισ αὐτὴν ἄνωθεν. τὴν δὲ θύραν τῆσ κιβωτοῦ ποιήσεισ ἐκ πλαγίων. κατάγαια διώροφα καὶ τριώροφα ποιήσεισ αὐτήν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 6:16)
  • καὶ ὁ πυλὼν τῆσ πλευρᾶσ τῆσ ὑποκάτωθεν ὑπὸ τὴν ὠμίαν τοῦ οἴκου τὴν δεξιάν, καὶ ἑλικτὴ ἀνάβασισ εἰσ τὸ μέσον καὶ ἐκ τῆσ μέσησ ἐπὶ τὰ τριώροφα, (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:12)
  • καὶ τὸ εὖροσ τῆσ ἀνωτέρασ τῶν πλευρῶν κατὰ τὸ πρόσθεμα ἐκ τοῦ τοίχου πρὸσ τὴν ἀνωτέραν κύκλῳ τοῦ οἴκου, ὅπωσ διαπλατύνηται ἄνωθεν καὶ ἐκ τῶν κάτωθεν ἀναβαίνωσιν ἐπὶ τὰ ὑπερῷα καὶ ἐκ τῶν μέσων ἐπὶ τὰ τριώροφα. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 41:7)
  • τριώροφα γὰρ αὐτῶν πολλὰ καὶ τετρώροφα πεποίητο, καὶ τῇ πολυτελείᾳ τῇ περὶ τὴν κατασκευὴν ἦν ἡσθῆναι μετ’ ἐκπλήξεωσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 162:1)
  • 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)

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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