Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑψίπυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψίπυλος ὑψίπυλον

Structure: ὑψιπυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu/lh

Sense

  1. with high gates

Examples

  • τοῦτον χωρίσαντεσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀναπαίστων κυκλικὸν καλοῦσι παράδειγμα αὐτοῦ φέροντεσ τοιόνδε κέχυται πόλισ ὑψίπυλοσ κατὰ γᾶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1730)

Synonyms

  1. with high gates

Related

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

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