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εὔλεκτρος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: eulektros

Principal Part: εὔλεκτρος εὔλεκτρον

Structure: εὐλεκτρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bringing wedded happiness, blessing marriage

Examples

  • νικᾷ δ ἐναργὴς βλεφάρων ἵμερος εὐλέκτρου νύμφας, τῶν μεγάλων πάρεδρος ἐν ἀρχαῖς θεσμῶν. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • εἰσὶ γὰρ ἄλλαι κρέσσονες εὐλέκτρου Κύπριδος ἐργάτιδες. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 245 1:4)
  • μόνα δ εὔλεκτρος ἐν μέσῳ Κύπρις ῥαβδονόμει ξυνοῦσα. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, antistrophe 13)

Synonyms

  1. bringing wedded happiness

Similar forms

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

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