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εὔφυλλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔφυλλος εὔφυλλον

Structure: εὐφυλλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fu/llon

Sense

  1. well-leafed

Examples

  • ποίμναισ δ’ οὐχ ἱεί θαλερὰσ βοσκὰσ εὐφύλλων ἑλίκων, πόλεων δ’ ἀπέλειπε βίοσ· (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • πεντάδα τὴν σταφυλῆσ εὐρώγεα, καὶ μελιηδὲσ πρώιον εὐφύλλων σῦκον ἀπ’ ἀκρεμόνων, καὶ ταύτην ἀπέτηλον ἁλινήκτειραν ἐλαίην, καὶ ψαιστῶν ὀλίγον δρᾶγμα πενιχραλέων, καὶ σταγόνα σπονδῖτιν, ἀεὶ θυέεσσιν ὀπηδόν, τὴν κύλικοσ βαιῷ πυθμένι κευθομένην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1902)

Synonyms

  1. well-leafed

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

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