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χειρότονος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειρότονος χειρότονον

Structure: χειροτον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tei/nw

Sense

  1. stretching out the hands, offered with outstretched hands

Examples

  • κλύετε παρθένων κλύετε πανδίκωσ χειροτόνουσ λιτάσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 32)

Related

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

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