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εὐπέταλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπέταλος εὐπέταλον

Structure: εὐπεταλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/talon

Sense

  1. with beautiful leaves

Examples

  • "ὃ δὲ μέγιστόν ἐστιν ὑπὸ Θεοφράστου δ’ ἱστόρηται, Ἀλεξάνδρου κελεύσαντοσ Ἑλληνικὰ δένδρα τοῖσ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι παραδείσοισ ἐμβαλεῖν Ἅρπαλον, μάλιστα δέ, τῶν τόπων ἐμπύρων ὄντων καὶ περιφλεγόντων, τὰ ἀλσώδη καὶ εὐπέταλα καὶ σκιερὰ δ καταμῖξαι τοῖσ φυτοῖσ, μόνον οὐκ ἐδέξατο τὸν κιττὸν ἡ χώρα, καίτοι πολλὰ τοῦ Ἁρπάλου πραγματευομένου καὶ προσφιλονεικοῦντοσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 2:7)

Synonyms

  1. with beautiful leaves

Related

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

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