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φοινικάνθεμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοινικάνθεμος φοινικάνθεμον

Structure: φοινικανθεμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/nqemon

Sense

  1. with purple flowers

Examples

  • ἦ μάλα δὴ μετὰ καὶ νῦν, ὥστε φοινικανθέμου ἦροσ ἀκμᾷ, παισὶ τούτοισ ὄγδοον θάλλει μέροσ Ἀρκεσίλασ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 19:2)

Similar forms

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

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