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εὐπάρυφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπάρυφος εὐπάρυφον

Structure: εὐπαρυφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: parufh/

Sense

  1. with fine purple border
  2. wearing such a garment

Examples

  • "λοιπή τισ ὀξίσ ἐστι καὶ ψυκτήριον τῆσ εὐπαρύφου λεπτότερον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1452)
  • "ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ Γρυλλίωνοσ παρασιτοῦντοσ Μενάνδρῳ τῷ σατράπῃ, εὐπαρύφου δὲ καὶ μετὰ θεραπείασ περιπατοῦντοσ ἐρωτηθεὶσ τίσ ἐστιν οὗτοσ ι Μενάνδρου ἔφησεν, ’ ἀξία γνάθοσ Χαιρεφῶν δέ, φησίν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 45 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. with fine purple border

Related

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

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