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ἐλαιοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαιοφόρος

Structure: ἐλαιοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. olive-bearing

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

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

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