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δίπυρος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: dipyros

Principal Part: δίπυρος δίπυρον

Structure: διπυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: πῦρ

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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