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Κυδώνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κυδώνιος Κυδώνιᾱ Κυδώνιον

Structure: Κυδωνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Ku/dwn

Sense

  1. Cydonian, a quince
  2. swelling like a quince, round and plump

Examples

  • ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ χώρᾳ λόφοσ ἐστὶν ἀνήκων ἐσ ὀξύ, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτῷ πόλεωσ Φρίξασ ἐρείπια καὶ Ἀθηνᾶσ ἐστιν ἐπίκλησιν Κυδωνίασ ναόσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 11:1)
  • ἱδρύσασθαι δὲ τῇ θεῷ τὸ ἱερὸν Κλύμενόν φασιν ἀπόγονον Ἡρακλέουσ τοῦ Ἰδαίου, παραγενέσθαι δὲ αὐτὸν ἀπὸ Κυδωνίασ τῆσ Κρητικῆσ καὶ τοῦ Ιἀρδάνου ποταμοῦ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 12:1)
  • τῆσ μέντοι Κυδωνίασ ὄροσ ἐστὶ Τίτυροσ, ἐν ᾧ ἱερόν ἐστιν οὐ Δικταῖον ἀλλὰ Δικτύνναιον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 4 17:10)

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

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