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ἐλαιοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαιοφόρος

Structure: ἐλαιοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. olive-bearing

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἐλαιοφόρος ἐλαιόφορον
Genitive ἐλαιοφόρου ἐλαιοφόρου
Dative ἐλαιοφόρῳ ἐλαιοφόρῳ
Accusative ἐλαιοφόρον ἐλαιόφορον
Vocative ἐλαιοφόρε ἐλαιόφορον
DualN/A/V ἐλαιοφόρω ἐλαιοφόρω
G/D ἐλαιοφόροιν ἐλαιοφόροιν
PluralNominative ἐλαιοφόροι ἐλαιόφορα
Genitive ἐλαιοφόρων ἐλαιοφόρων
Dative ἐλαιοφόροις ἐλαιοφόροις
Accusative ἐλαιοφόρους ἐλαιόφορα
Vocative ἐλαιοφόροι ἐλαιόφορα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἐλαιοφόρος ἐλαιοφόρου ἐλαιοφορότερος ἐλαιοφοροτέρου ἐλαιοφορότατος ἐλαιοφοροτάτου
Adverb ἐλαιοφόρως ἐλαιοφορότερον ἐλαιοφορότατα

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

  • ὦ τὸν ἐλαιοφόρον ὄχθον ἔχων <ἄναξ> . (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric1)
  • ἀκολούθωσ δὲ τούτοισ τὴν μὲν Λιβύην πλήθουσαν ἀγρίων ζῴων, πολλὰ τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἔρημον χώραν χειρωσάμενοσ, ἐξημέρωσεν, ὥστε καὶ γεωργίαισ καὶ ταῖσ ἄλλαισ φυτείαισ ταῖσ τοὺσ καρποὺσ παρασκευαζούσαισ πληρωθῆναι πολλὴν μὲν ἀμπελόφυτον χώραν, πολλὴν δ’ ἐλαιοφόρον· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 17 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. olive-bearing

Similar forms

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

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