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χαυλιόδους

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαυλιόδους χαυλιόδοντος

Structure: χαυλιοδοντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Deriv. of xauli- unknown.

Sense

  1. with outstanding teeth or tusks
  2. outstanding, tusky

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χαυλιόδους χαυλιόδοντε χαυλιόδοντες
Genitive χαυλιόδοντος χαυλιοδόντοιν χαυλιοδόντων
Dative χαυλιόδοντι χαυλιοδόντοιν χαυλιόδουσιν*
Accusative χαυλιόδοντα χαυλιόδοντε χαυλιόδοντας
Vocative χαυλιόδον χαυλιόδοντε χαυλιόδοντες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ δέρμα αὐτοῦ πᾶν φολιδωτόν ἐστι καὶ τῇ σκληρότητι διάφορον, ὀδόντεσ δ’ ἐξ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν μερῶν ὑπάρχουσι πολλοί, δύο δὲ οἱ χαυλιόδοντεσ πολὺ τῷ μεγέθει τῶν ἄλλων διαλλάττοντεσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 35 3:3)

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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