aegospotamos

Other forms of aegospotamos

plural

aegospotamoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aegospotamos

What does aegospotamos mean?

aegospotamos means "a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in aegospotamos?

aegospotamos has 6 syllables: a-e-go-spo-ta-mos. The stress falls on "spo".

What is another word for aegospotamos?

Close synonyms include Aegospotami, Aegospotami. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aegospotamos a common word?

aegospotamos is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.