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ἐννεάκρουνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐννεάκρουνος ἐννεάκρουνον

Structure: ἐννεακρουν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with nine springs

Examples

  • φοιτᾶν γὰρ αἰεὶ τὰσ σφετέρασ θυγατέρασ τε καὶ τοὺσ παῖδασ ἐπ’ ὕδωρ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐννεάκρουνον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 137 4:3)
  • πλησίον δέ ἐστι κρήνη, καλοῦσι δὲ αὐτὴν Ἐννεάκρουνον, οὕτω κοσμηθεῖσαν ὑπὸ Πεισιστράτου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. with nine springs

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

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