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δίπυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίπυρος δίπυρον

Structure: διπυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. with double flame

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἅμα δὲ Δίκτυννα παῖσ Ἄρτεμισ καλὰ τὰσ κυνίσκασ ἔχουσ’ ἐλθέτω διὰ δόμων πανταχῇ, σὺ δ’ ὦ Διὸσ διπύρουσ ἀνέχουσα λαμπάδασ ὀξυτάτασ χεροῖν Ἑκάτα παράφηνον ἐσ Γλύκησ, ὅπωσ ἂν εἰσελθοῦσα φωράσω. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric15)
  • εἶτ’ ἀντακαῖον ἰχθύων τάριχοσ ἢ κρεῶν, βατανίων εὐθέωσ δίπυρον παραθήσω κᾠὸν ἐπιτετμημένον, πῦον, μέλιτοσ ὀξύβαφον ἐπὶ ταγηνιῶν, τυροῦ τροφάλια χλωρὰ Κυθνίου παρατεμὼν, βοτρύδιόν τι, χόριον, ἐν ποτηρίῳ γλυκὺν τὸ τοιοῦτον γὰρ ἀεί πωσ μέροσ ἐπιπαίζεται, κεφαλὴ δὲ δείπνου γίνεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 12 2:3)
  • δίπυρον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 74 5:3)
  • διπύρουσ τε θερμούσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 74 5:5)
  • οἱ δίπυροι δ’ εἰσὶν τίνεσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 74 5:7)

Synonyms

  1. with double flame

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

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