ἀπότομον (apotomon)

ἀπότομον is an Ancient Greek form of ἀπότομος, meaning “cut off; sheer, precipitous”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Alexander 58.2: λέγεται δὲ τὴν Σισιμίθρου πολιορκῶν πέτραν ἄβατον οὖσαν καὶ ἀπότομον ἀθυμούντων τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἐρωτῆσαι τὸν Ὀξυάρτην ποῖός τις αὐτὸς εἴη τὴν ψυχὴν ὁ Σισιμίθρης. φήσαντος δὲ τοῦ Ὀ …

Polybius, Histories 9.32.6: Χλαινέας τοιγαροῦν, καταστρέφων τὴν δημηγορίαν, ἀπότομόν τινα συγκεφαλαίωσιν ἐποιήσατο τῶν ὑπαρχόντων πρὸς ὑμᾶς δικαίων.

All forms of ἀπότομος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.