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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From δόρυ (dóru, “spear”) + κλῠτός (klutós, “famous”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /duː.ri.kly.tós/ → /ðu.ri.klyˈtos/ → /ðu.ri.kliˈtos/
Adjective
δουρῐκλῠτός • (douriklutós) (genitive δουρῐκλῠτοῦ, attested only in the masculine singular)
- (Epic) famed for the spear (Homeric epithet for various heroes)
Declension
Further reading
- “δουρικλυτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δουρικλυτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- δουρικλυτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “δουρικλυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press