Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τόν ῥὰ οἱ ἀμφίπολοσ Φυλὼ παρέθηκε φέρουσα νήματοσ ἀσκητοῖο βεβυσμένον αὐτὰρ ἐν αὐτῷ ἠλακάτη τετάνυστο ἰοδνεφὲσ εἶροσ ἔχουσα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 17 2:1)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἠλακάτη τετάνυστο ἰοδνεφὲσ εἶροσ ἔχουσα. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 14:7)
  • ἄρσενεσ ὀιέσ ἦσαν ἐυτρεφέεσ, δασύμαλλοι, καλοί τε μεγάλοι τε, ἰοδνεφὲσ εἶροσ ἔχοντεσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 43:8)
  • ὀχθήσασ δ’ ἄρα εἶροσ τ’ ἔφατ’ ἔκ τ’ ὀνόμαζεν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 31:3)

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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