Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὔπτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔπτερος εὔπτερον

Structure: εὐπτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/n

Sense

  1. well-winged, well-plumed, high-plumed

Examples

  • εὐσωματεῖ γὰρ καὶ σφριγᾷ, κἄστ’ ἐκ γυναικῶν εὐπτέρων τῶν Κοισύρασ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:28)

Synonyms

  1. well-winged

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

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