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δωροφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δωροφόρος δωροφόρον

Structure: δωροφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. bringing presents

Examples

  • μανύει στιβαρᾶσ κατ’ ἐπωμίδοσ ἀρτιχάρακτον γράμμα, τίσ ἐκ χέρσου τάνδ’ ἐκύλισε τρόπιν φατὶ γὰρ ὡσ Ιἕρων Ιἑροκλέοσ Ἑλλάδι πάσᾳ καὶ νάσοισ καρπὸν πίονα δωροφορῶν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 3:2)

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

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