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φοινικίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοινικίς φοινικίδος

Structure: φοινικιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: foi=nic

Sense

  1. a red or purple cloth
  2. a red cloak, a red cloak
  3. a red curtain or carpet
  4. a red flag

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοῦτο μέγεθόσ σου, ὡμοιώθησ τῷ φοίνικι καὶ οἱ μαστοί σου τοῖσ βότρυσιν. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:8)
  • εἶπα. ἀναβήσομαι ἐπὶ τῷ φοίνικι, κρατήσω τῶν ὕψεων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται δὴ μαστοί σου ὡσ βότρυεσ τῆσ ἀμπέλου καὶ ὀσμὴ ρινόσ σου ὡσ μῆλα (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:9)
  • πυρὸσ φοίνικι πνοᾷ καθελὼν Τροίασ ἐπόρθησε χθόνα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • λάζυσθαι χρεὼν μοχλοὺσ δικέλλασ θ’, ὥστε Κυκλώπων βάθρα φοίνικι κανόνι καὶ τύκοισ ἡρμοσμένα στρεπτῷ σιδήρῳ συντριαινῶσαι πάλιν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:15)
  • καὶ Νέστορι δ’ ἤδη ὄντι γηραιῷ καὶ Φοίνικι δὲ κρέασ ὀπτὸν δίδωσι ἀφιστῶν ἡμᾶσ τῶν ἀτάκτων ἐπιθυμιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 15 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. a red cloak

Related

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

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