"πολύτροπος" meaning in Ancient Greek

See πολύτροπος in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /po.lý.tro.pos/, /poˈly.tro.pos/, /poˈli.tro.pos/, /po.lý.tro.pos/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /poˈly.tro.pos/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /poˈly.tro.pos/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /poˈly.tro.pos/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /poˈli.tro.pos/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From πολῠ́ς (polús, “many”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn”) + -ος (-os). Etymology templates: {{af|grc|πολῠ́ς|τρόπος|-ος|t1=many|t2=turn}} πολῠ́ς (polús, “many”) + τρόπος (trópos, “turn”) + -ος (-os) Inflection templates: {{grc-adecl|πολῠ́τροπος|ον}} Forms: πολῠ́τροπος [canonical], polútropos [romanization], πολῠ́τροπον [neuter], Attic declension-2 [table-tags], πολῠ́τροπος [feminine, masculine, nominative, singular], πολῠ́τροπον [neuter, nominative, singular], πολῠτρόπω [dual, feminine, masculine, nominative], πολῠτρόπω [dual, neuter, nominative], πολῠ́τροποι [feminine, masculine, nominative, plural], πολῠ́τροπᾰ [neuter, nominative, plural], πολῠτρόπου [feminine, genitive, masculine, singular], πολῠτρόπου [genitive, neuter, singular], πολῠτρόποιν [dual, feminine, genitive, masculine], πολῠτρόποιν [dual, genitive, neuter], πολῠτρόπων [feminine, genitive, masculine, plural], πολῠτρόπων [genitive, neuter, plural], πολῠτρόπῳ [dative, feminine, masculine, singular], πολῠτρόπῳ [dative, neuter, singular], πολῠτρόποιν [dative, dual, feminine, masculine], πολῠτρόποιν [dative, dual, neuter], πολῠτρόποις [dative, feminine, masculine, plural], πολῠτρόποις [dative, neuter, plural], πολῠ́τροπον [accusative, feminine, masculine, singular], πολῠ́τροπον [accusative, neuter, singular], πολῠτρόπω [accusative, dual, feminine, masculine], πολῠτρόπω [accusative, dual, neuter], πολῠτρόπους [accusative, feminine, masculine, plural], πολῠ́τροπᾰ [accusative, neuter, plural], πολῠ́τροπε [feminine, masculine, singular, vocative], πολῠ́τροπον [neuter, singular, vocative], πολῠτρόπω [dual, feminine, masculine, vocative], πολῠτρόπω [dual, neuter, vocative], πολῠ́τροποι [feminine, masculine, plural, vocative], πολῠ́τροπᾰ [neuter, plural, vocative], πολῠτρόπως [adverbial, feminine, masculine, neuter], πολῠτροπώτερος [comparative, feminine, masculine, neuter], πολῠτροπώτᾰτος [feminine, masculine, neuter, superlative]
  1. much turned, much traveled, much wandering
    Sense id: en-πολύτροπος-grc-adj-9TcW3vuC Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 35 38 12 11 4
  2. turning many ways
    (figurative) shifty, versatile, wily
    Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-πολύτροπος-grc-adj--4rL4Cvk Categories (other): Ancient Greek bahuvrihi compounds, Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ος, Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes Disambiguation of Ancient Greek bahuvrihi compounds: 25 36 17 16 6 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 35 38 12 11 4 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -ος: 24 33 19 18 6 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes: 22 35 21 20 3
  3. turning many ways
    (of diseases) changeful, complicated
    Sense id: en-πολύτροπος-grc-adj-0vH5acoB Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 35 38 12 11 4
  4. turning many ways
    Sense id: en-πολύτροπος-grc-adj-jKiV8T0X Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 35 38 12 11 4
  5. various, manifold
    Sense id: en-πολύτροπος-grc-adj-fVCbZm96

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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόποιν",
      "roman": "polutrópoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόποιν",
      "roman": "polutrópoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπων",
      "roman": "polutrópōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπων",
      "roman": "polutrópōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπῳ",
      "roman": "polutrópōi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπῳ",
      "roman": "polutrópōi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόποιν",
      "roman": "polutrópoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόποιν",
      "roman": "polutrópoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόποις",
      "roman": "polutrópois",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόποις",
      "roman": "polutrópois",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠ́τροπον",
      "roman": "polútropon",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠ́τροπον",
      "roman": "polútropon",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπω",
      "roman": "polutrópō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπω",
      "roman": "polutrópō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπους",
      "roman": "polutrópous",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠ́τροπᾰ",
      "roman": "polútropa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠ́τροπε",
      "roman": "polútrope",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠ́τροπον",
      "roman": "polútropon",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπω",
      "roman": "polutrópō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπω",
      "roman": "polutrópō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "neuter",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠ́τροποι",
      "roman": "polútropoi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠ́τροπᾰ",
      "roman": "polútropa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτρόπως",
      "roman": "polutrópōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτροπώτερος",
      "roman": "polutropṓteros",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "πολῠτροπώτᾰτος",
      "roman": "polutropṓtatos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "πολῠ́τροπος",
        "2": "ον"
      },
      "name": "grc-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Muse, sing for me of the man of many ways, who wandered very far, after he sacked the holy city of Troy:",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.1–2",
          "roman": "plánkhthē, epeì Troíēs hieròn ptolíethron éperse;",
          "text": "Ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ\nπλάγχθη, ἐπεὶ Τροίης ἱερὸν πτολίεθρον ἔπερσε·\nÁndra moi énnepe, Moûsa, polútropon, hòs mála pollà"
        },
        {
          "text": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.330"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "much turned, much traveled, much wandering"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 13.439"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "turning many ways",
        "shifty, versatile, wily"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shifty",
          "shifty"
        ],
        [
          "versatile",
          "versatile"
        ],
        [
          "wily",
          "wily"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "turning many ways",
        "(figurative) shifty, versatile, wily"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Life of Numa"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "turning many ways",
        "changeful, complicated"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "changeful",
          "changeful"
        ],
        [
          "complicated",
          "complicated"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "turning many ways",
        "(of diseases) changeful, complicated"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of diseases"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 215"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "turning many ways"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.44"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "various, manifold"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "various",
          "various"
        ],
        [
          "manifold",
          "manifold"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/po.lý.tro.pos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poˈly.tro.pos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poˈli.tro.pos/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/po.lý.tro.pos/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poˈly.tro.pos/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poˈly.tro.pos/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poˈly.tro.pos/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/poˈli.tro.pos/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "πολύτροπος"
}

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