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εἶρος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἶρος

Structure: εἰρο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From Root ER, cf. e)/rion.

Sense

  1. wool

Declension

Third 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

  • μνηστῆρσιν δὲ μάλιστα πιφαυσκόμενοσ τάδε εἴρω· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 2 14:2)
  • τὰ δέ τοι νημερτέα εἴρω. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 14:16)
  • ὑμέων δ’ ἀνδρὶ ἑκάστῳ ἐφιέμενοσ τάδε εἴρω, ὅσσοι ἐνὶ μεγάροισι γερούσιον αἴθοπα οἶνον αἰεὶ πίνετ’ ἐμοῖσιν, ἀκουάζεσθε δ’ ἀοιδοῦ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 13 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. wool

Related

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

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