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εὔοινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔοινος εὔοινον

Structure: εὐοιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. producing good wine

Examples

  • φοίτα δ’ ἄλλοτε μὲν λείπων Σάμον, ἄλλοτε δ’ ‐ αὐτὴν οἰνηρῇ δείρῃ κεκλιμένην πατρίδα, Λέσβον ἐσ εὐοίνον· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 7:1)
  • τούτων δὲ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἑκάστου πολὺ μέροσ εὐάμπελον καὶ εὐοίνον λέγεται. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 116:6)

Synonyms

  1. producing good wine

Related

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

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