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φοινίκεος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοινίκεος

Structure: φοινικε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: foi=nic

Sense

  1. purple-red, purple or crimson, red

Examples

  • "φοινίκεον ἱστίον ὑγρῷ πεφυρμένον πρίνου ἄνθει ἐριθάλλου· (Plutarch, chapter 17 5:1)
  • ἐντὸσ θώρηκα εἶχε χρύσεον λεπιδωτόν, κατύπερθε δὲ τοῦ θώρηκοσ κιθῶνα φοινίκεον ἐνεδεδύκεε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 22 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. purple-red

Related

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

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