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ὑψίκομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψίκομος ὑψίκομον

Structure: ὑψικομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/mh

Sense

  1. with lofty foliage, towering

Examples

  • πολλὰσ δὲ δρῦσ ὑψικόμουσ ἐλάτασ τε παχείασ οὔρεοσ ἐν βήσσῃσ πιλνᾷ χθονὶ πουλυβοτείρῃ ἐμπίπτων, καὶ πᾶσα βοᾷ τότε νήριτοσ ὕλη. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 59:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ κνημοὺσ προσέβαν πολυπίδακοσ Ἴδησ, αὐτίκ’ ἄρα δρῦσ ὑψικόμουσ ταναήκεϊ χαλκῷ τάμνον ἐπειγόμενοι· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 11:8)

Synonyms

  1. with lofty foliage

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

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