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διατρύγιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διατρύγιος διατρύγιον

Structure: διατρυγι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tru/gh

Sense

  1. bearing grapes in succession

Examples

  • "οἱ δὲ παλαιοὶ καὶ τρύγα τὸν οἶνον ἄντικρυσ ἐκάλουν, ὥσπερ ψυχὴν καὶ κεφαλὴν τὸν ἄνθρωπον εἰώθαμεν ἀπὸ τῶν κυριωτάτων ὑποκορίζεσθαι, καὶ τρυγᾶν λέγομεν τοὺσ δρεπομένουσ τὴν ἀμπελίνην ὀπώραν, καὶ διατρύγιόν που Ὅμηροσ εἴρηκεν, αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν οἶνον αἴθοπα καί ἐρυθρὸν εἰώθε · (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 4:9)

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

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