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ἐρίνεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρίνεος ἐρίνεᾱ ἐρίνεον

Structure: ἐρινε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/rion

Sense

  1. of wool, woollen

Examples

  • "τῷ δ’ ἐν ἐρινεόσ ἐστι μέγασ φύλλοισι τεθηλώσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 661)
  • ἦν δὲ πλησίον ἐρινεόσ, ὃν Ῥωμινάλιον ἐκάλουν, ἢ διὰ τὸν Ῥωμύλον ὡσ οἱ πολλοὶ νομίζουσιν, ἢ διὰ τὸ τὰ μηρυκώμενα τῶν θρεμμάτων ἐκεῖ διὰ τὴν σκιὰν ἐνδιάζειν, ἢ μάλιστα διὰ τὸν τῶν βρεφῶν θηλασμόν, ὅτι τήν τε θηλὴν ῥοῦμαν ὠνόμαζον οἱ παλαιοί, καὶ θεόν τινα τῆσ ἐκτροφῆσ τῶν νηπίων ἐπιμελεῖσθαι δοκοῦσαν ὀνομάζουσι Ῥουμῖναν, καὶ θύουσιν αὐτῇ νηφάλια, καὶ γάλα τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ ἐπισπένδουσιν. (Plutarch, chapter 4 1:1)
  • τοῦ μὲν ὑπὲκ χειρῶν ἔφυγεν τανύφλοιοσ ἐρινεὸσ καμπτόμενοσ, τηλοῦ δὲ μιῇ πήδησε σὺν ὁρμῇ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 106)
  • τῷ δ’ ἐν ἐρινεὸσ ἔστι μέγασ, φύλλοισι τεθηλώσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 10:4)
  • τότε οὖν πρὸσ τῇ Νέδᾳ πεφυκὼσ ἐρινεὸσ οὐκ ἐσ εὐθὺ ηὔξητο, ἀλλὰ ἔσ τε τὸ ῥεῦμα ἐπέστρεφε καὶ τοῦ ὕδατοσ ἄκροισ τοῖσ φύλλοισ ἐπέψαυε. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. of 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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