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ἐλαιοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαιοφόρος

Structure: ἐλαιοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. olive-bearing

Examples

  • ποίασ δ’ ἐλαιοφόρου τὰ Μεσσαπίων καὶ Δαυνίων καὶ Σαβίνων καὶ πολλῶν ἄλλων γεώργια; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 37 3:1)
  • οὔσησ δὲ τῆσ Γαλιλαίασ ἐλαιοφόρου μάλιστα καὶ τότε εὐφορηκυίασ, εἰσ σπανίζοντασ εἰσπέμπων πολὺ καὶ μόνοσ ἄπειρόν τι πλῆθοσ συνῆγεν χρημάτων, οἷσ εὐθέωσ ἐχρῆτο κατὰ τοῦ τὴν ἐργασίαν παρασχόντοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 746:2)

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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