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φοινικόβαπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοινικόβαπτος φοινικόβαπτον

Structure: φοινικοβαπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. purple-dyed

Examples

  • φοινικοβάπτοισ ἐνδυτοῖσ ἐσθήμασι τιμᾶτε, καὶ τὸ φέγγοσ ὁρμάσθω πυρόσ, ὅπωσ ἂν εὔφρων ἥδ’ ὁμιλία χθονὸσ τὸ λοιπὸν εὐάνδροισι συμφοραῖσ πρέπῃ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. purple-dyed

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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