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ὑπόψαμμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόψαμμος ὑπόψαμμον

Structure: ὑποψαμμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. having sand under, somewhat sandy

Examples

  • δόξαντα δὲ ταῦτα καὶ περανθέντα, τὰ μὲν στρατεύματα ἀπῆλθε, τὸ μὲν βαρβαρικὸν εἰσ Τράλλεισ τῆσ Καρίασ, τὸ δ’ Ἑλληνικὸν εἰσ Λεύκοφρυν, ἔνθα ἦν Ἀρτέμιδόσ τε ἱερὸν μάλα ἅγιον καὶ λίμνη πλέον ἢ σταδίου ὑπόψαμμοσ ἀέναοσ ποτίμου καὶ θερμοῦ ὕδατοσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 24:1)
  • ὑπόψαμμόσ τε γάρ ἐστιν ὡσ ἐπίπαν ἡ τῶν Πυλίων χώρα καὶ πόαν βουσὶν οὐχ ἱκανὴ τοσαύτην παρασχέσθαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 7:2)
  • ἔτι τοίνυν οὐδὲ τῆσ Αἰθιοπίασ τε καὶ Αἰγύπτου ἡ αὐτὴ φύσισ, ἀλλ’ ἡ μὲν ὑπόψαμμόσ τε καὶ ξηρὰ καὶ κατὰ λεπτόν ἐστι συνεστηκυῖα, ἡ δ’ οὕτω βαθεῖα καὶ πεπηγυῖα ὡσ οὐ ῥᾴδιον εὑρεῖν ἑτέραν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 22:10)

Synonyms

  1. having sand under

Related

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

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