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Ξανθότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ξανθότης Ξανθότητος

Structure: Ξανθοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. yellowness

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εὐθὺσ τοίνυν τὰ πέραν τοῦ Ῥήνου μετὰ τοὺσ Κελτοὺσ πρὸσ τὴν ἑώ κεκλιμένα Γερμανοὶ νέμονται, μικρὸν ἐξαλλάττοντεσ τοῦ Κελτικοῦ φύλου τῷ τε πλεονασμῷ τῆσ ἀγριότητοσ καὶ τοῦ μεγέθουσ καὶ τῆσ ξανθότητοσ, τἆλλα δὲ παραπλήσιοι καὶ μορφαῖσ καὶ ἤθεσι καὶ βίοισ ὄντεσ, οἱούσ εἰρήκαμεν τοὺσ Κελτούσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 1 4:1)
  • ἔνθεν διὰ τὴν ξανθότητα τοῦ βρώματοσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν κατὰ παιδιὰν Ἄδωμοσ ἐπικληθείσ, ἄδωμα γὰρ Ἑβραῖοι τὸ ἐρυθρὸν καλοῦσι, τὴν χώραν οὕτωσ προσηγόρευσεν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. yellowness

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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