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ὑψιγέννητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψιγέννητος ὑψιγέννητον

Structure: ὑψιγεννητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. born on high, topmost

Examples

  • ὁρῶ δ’ ἐπ’ ὀμφαλῷ μὲν ἄνδρα θεομυσῆ ἕδραν ἔχοντα προστρόπαιον, αἵματι στάζοντα χεῖρασ καὶ νεοσπαδὲσ ξίφοσ ἔχοντ’ ἐλαίασ θ’ ὑψιγέννητον κλάδον, λήνει μεγίστῳ σωφρόνωσ ἐστεμμένον, ἀργῆτι μαλλῷ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. born on high

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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