Ancient Greek

Adjective

πολύτροπος • ‎(polútropos) m, f ‎(neuter πολύτροπον); second declension

1. much turned, much traveled, much wandering
   • Homer, Odyssey 1.1
   • Homer, Odyssey 10.330
2. turning many ways
   • Theognis of Megara, Elegies 215
   1. (metaphoric) shifty, versatile, wily
      • Homeric Hymn to Hermes 13.439
   2. (of diseases) changeful, complicated
      • Plutarch, Life of Numa
3. various, manifold
   • Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.44

Inflection

References

• πολύτροπος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «πολύτροπος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «πολύτροπος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πολύτροπος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers