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φιλοζέφυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοζέφυρος φιλοζέφυρον

Structure: φιλοζεφυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving the west wind

Examples

  • ζωροπόται, καὶ τοῦτο φιλοζεφύρου κατὰ νηὸν τὸ ῥυτὸν εὐδίησ δεῦτ’ ’ἴδετ’ Ἀρσινόησ, ὀρχηστὴν Βησᾶν Αἰγύπτιον ὃσ λιγὺν ἦχον σαλπίζει κρουνοῦ πρὸσ ῥύσιν οἰγομένου,8 ου’ πολέμου σύνθημα, διὰ χρυσέου δὲ γέγωνεν κώδωνοσ κώμου σύνθεμα καὶ θαλίησ, Νεῖλοσ ὁκοῖον ἄναξ μύσταισ φίλον ἱεραγωγοῖσ εὑρ͂ε μέλοσ θείων πάτριον ἐξ ὑδάτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 97 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. loving the west wind

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

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