Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

λεπιδωτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεπιδωτός λεπιδωτή λεπιδωτόν

Structure: λεπιδωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. scaly, covered with scales
  2. with large scales

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δὲ κατὰ τὸν σοφὸν Ἐπίχαρμον μηδὲν ἀποκρινομένου τοῦ κυνὸσ τὰ πρὸ τοῦ δύ’ ἄνδρεσ ἔλεγον, εἷσ ἐγὼν ἀποχρέω, καὶ φημὶ ἔλλοπεσ διὰ τὸ εἶναι λεπιδωτοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 80 2:7)
  • "λεπιδωτόν, ὃν καλοῦσί τινεσ κυπρῖνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 82 1:2)
  • πολυέτη τὴν ἀποδημίαν ἔχων, νάρκη μὲν ἡ ἡδίστη, χοῖροσ, σῖμοσ, φάγροσ, ὀξύρυγχοσ, ἀλλάβησ, σίλουροσ, συνοδοντίσ, ἐλέωτρισ, ἔγχελυσ, θρίσσα, ἄβραμισ, τύφλη, λεπιδωτόσ, φῦσα, κεστρεύσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 88 3:1)
  • εὐθὺσ γὰρ εἰσ τὸν ποταμὸν ῥιφῆναι καὶ γεύσασθαι τόν τε λεπιδωτὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν φάγρον καὶ τὸν ὀξύρυγχον, οὓσ μάλιστα τῶν ἰχθύων ἀφοσιοῦσθαι· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 18 6:1)
  • ἔχει δὲ καὶ ὄνυχασ καρτεροὺσ καὶ δέρμα λεπιδωτὸν ἄρρηκτον ἐπὶ τοῦ νώτου. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 68 5:1)
  • ἰχθύεσ δ’ ἐν τῷ Νείλῳ πολλοὶ μὲν καὶ ἄλλοι χαρακτῆρα ἔχοντεσ ἴδιον καὶ ἐπιχώριον, γνωριμώτατοι δὲ ὅ τε ὀξύρυγχοσ καὶ ὁ λεπιδωτὸσ καὶ λάτοσ καὶ ἀλάβησ καὶ κορακῖνοσ καὶ χοῖροσ καὶ φαγρώριοσ ὃν καὶ φάγρον καλοῦσιν, ἔτι σίλουροσ κιθαρὸσ θρίσσα κεστρεὺσ λύχνοσ φῦσα βοῦσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 7:7)

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

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