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Ancient Greek
Etymology
πολύς (polús, “much”) + δεῦκος (deûkos, “sweet”) + -ης (-ēs).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /po.ly.děu̯.kɛːs/ → /po.lyˈðeɸ.cis/ → /po.liˈðef.cis/
Proper noun
Πολῠδεύκης • (Poludeúkēs) m (genitive Πολῠδεύκου); first declension
- Polydeuces; Pollux
Inflection
Descendants
See also
Further reading
- “Πολυδεύκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Πολυδεύκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Πολυδεύκης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- “Πολυδεύκης”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022