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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

  • καὶ μετ’ ὀλίγον ἐκ τῆσ Τισσαφέρνουσ σκηνῆσ ἀρθείσησ φοινικίδοσ ὁ μὲν τοὺσ στρατηγοὺσ ἔνδον συνέλαβε, τοὺσ δὲ λοχαγοὺσ οἷσ ἦν συντεταγμένον ἐπελθόντεσ ἀνεῖλον, ἄλλοι δὲ τοὺσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἥκοντασ τῶν στρατιωτῶν ἀνῄρουν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 26 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. a red cloak

Related

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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