ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΙ, πολυτροποι
POLYTROPOI, polytropoi
Sounds Like: po-LY-tro-poy
Translations: versatile, resourceful, ingenious, much-traveled, wandering
From the root: ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone or something that is 'much-turned' or has many ways. It is a compound word formed from 'ΠΟΛΥΣ' (much, many) and 'ΤΡΟΠΟΣ' (turn, way, manner). It can refer to someone who is versatile, resourceful, or ingenious, capable of adapting to many situations. It can also describe someone who has traveled widely or is wandering.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine or Feminine
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 5:125
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 19:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΝΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΙΣ — in many ways, in manifold ways, in various ways
- ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΙΣ — many-sided, versatile, manifold, various, of many turns, much-traveled
- ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΝ — manifold, various, much-turned, versatile, ingenious, a manifold, a various
- ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ — many-sided, versatile, resourceful, ingenious, manifold, much-traveled, a many-sided, a versatile
- ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΩ — versatile, manifold, various, much-travelled, (in) many ways, (in a) varied manner
- ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΩΝ — of many-sided, of versatile, of manifold, of various, of many turns, of much-traveled
- ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΩΣ — in many ways, in various ways, in diverse manners, diversely
- ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΩΤΑΤΗ — most versatile, most resourceful, most cunning, most manifold, a most versatile one
- ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΩΤΕΡΩΝ — more versatile, more resourceful, more manifold, more varied, more wandering
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