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χειροπληθής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειροπληθής χειροπληθές

Structure: χειροπληθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: plh=qos

Sense

  1. filling the hand, as large as can be held in the hand

Examples

  • μεστὸν γάρ ἐστι λίθων χειροπληθῶν ὑποπεφυκυῖαν ἐχόντων αὑτοῖσ ἄγρωστιν, ἀφ’ ἧσ ἄφθονοι νομαὶ βοσκήμασίν εἰσιν· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 14:4)

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

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