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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Bahuvrīhi compound of ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “crooked”) + μῆτις (mêtis, “counsel”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aŋ.ky.lo.mɛ̌ː.tɛːs/ → /aɲ.ɟy.loˈmi.tis/ → /aɲ.ɟi.loˈmi.tis/
Adjective
ἀγκῠλομήτης • (ankulomḗtēs) (attested only in the masculine singular)
- (Epic) having crooked counsel (epithet of Cronus and occasionally of Prometheus)
Declension
Further reading
- “ἀγκυλομήτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἀγκυλομήτης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀγκυλομήτης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἀγκυλομήτης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press