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ὑπόκυφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόκυφος ὑπόκυφον

Structure: ὑποκυφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. somewhat humped

Examples

  • ἐπανερέσθαι δ’ οὖν ἀπιόντα τὸν θεὸν εἰ λῷον εἰή ταύτην ἀντ’ ἐκείνησ κτίζειν, τὸν δὲ ἀνειπεῖν ἐτύγχανε δὲ ὑπόκυφοσ ὢν ὁ Μύσκελλοσ Μύσκελλε βραχύνωτε, παρὲκ θεὸν ἄλλο ματεύων κλάσματα θηρεύεισ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 1 24:5)

Synonyms

  1. somewhat humped

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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