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τυμβόχωστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τυμβόχωστος τυμβόχωστον

Structure: τυμβοχωστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xw/nnumi

Sense

  1. heaped up into a cairn, high-heaped

Examples

  • ἰὼ Διρκαῖαι κρῆναι Θήβασ τ’ εὐαρμάτου ἄλσοσ, ἔμπασ ξυμμάρτυρασ ὔμμ’ ἐπικτῶμαι, οἱά φίλων ἄκλαυτοσ, οἱοίσ νόμοισ πρὸσ ἑρ́γμα τυμβόχωστον ἔρχομαι τάφου ποταινίου· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 25)

Synonyms

  1. heaped up into a cairn

Similar forms

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

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