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ψάμμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψάμμιος ψάμμιᾱ ψάμμιον

Structure: ψαμμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ya/mmos

Sense

  1. on the sand

Examples

  • οὐδὲ ἕδρην γὰρ ἐν τοῖσι οὐρητῆρσι οὐκ ἴσχουσι οἱ λίθοι, ἀλλὰ τὰ ψαμμία σὺν τοῖσι οὔροισι κάτω διαπλέει · τάπερ καὶ σημήϊα καὶ ὕλη τοῦ πάθεοσ γίγνεται· ἢν δὲ ἐμφραχθῇ κοτε τῇ κοιλίῃ μέζων τελεσθεὶσ , πόνοι τῆσ ὀσφύοσ ἀμφὶ τὰσ ψόασ μέσφι τῶν μέσων πλευρέων. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 81)

Synonyms

  1. on the sand

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

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