Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φλόϊνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φλόϊνος φλόϊνη φλόϊνον

Structure: φλοϊν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from the water-plant, mat-

Examples

  • οὗτοι μὲν δὴ τῶν Ἰνδῶν φορέουσι ἐσθῆτα φλοί̈νην· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 98 5:1)
  • ἢν δὲ ἐσθῆτα φλοί̈νην παχεῖαν πλέξωνται, τὰ ῥάμφη τῶν Στυμφαλίδων ὑπὸ τῆσ ἐσθῆτοσ ἔχεται τῆσ φλοί̈νησ, καθὰ καὶ πτέρυγεσ ὀρνίθων τῶν μικρῶν προσέχονται τῷ ἰξῷ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 8:2)

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

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