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ἔγκαρπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκαρπος ἔγκαρπον

Structure: ἐγκαρπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. containing fruit

Examples

  • οὐδὲ τῶν ἐγκάρπων, ἀλλ’ ἣν μόνον ἐπαινέσαι θέλων αἰγίβοτον εἴρηκεν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:4)
  • πῦρ γὰρ θάμνου βάτων νεμόμενον τὴν περὶ αὐτὸν χλόην τό τε ἄνθοσ αὐτοῦ παρῆλθεν ἀβλαβὲσ καὶ τῶν ἐγκάρπων κλάδων οὐδὲν ἠφάνισε καὶ ταῦτα τῆσ φλογὸσ πολλῆσ καὶ ὀξυτάτησ ὑπαρχούσησ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 330:1)

Synonyms

  1. containing fruit

Related

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

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