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ὑπερμήκης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερμήκης ὑπερμήκες

Structure: ὑπερμηκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: mh=kos

Sense

  1. exceeding long, very long, reaches very far
  2. exceeding high
  3. exceeding loud

Examples

  • καὶ αὐτῷ ἄνδρεσ ἱεροὶ κατὰ κρημνῶν τε ἀποτόμων καὶ πετρῶν πηδῶσιν ὑψηλῶν καὶ ὑπερμήκη δένδρα ἐριπόντεσ ἐκ ῥιζῶν κατὰ τὰ στενώτατα τῶν ἀτραπῶν ὁμοῦ τοῖσ ἄχθεσιν ὁδεύουσι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 32 9:3)

Synonyms

  1. exceeding high

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

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