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φοινικοδάκτυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοινικοδάκτυλος φοινικοδάκτυλον

Structure: φοινικοδακτυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. crimson-fingered

Declension

First/Second 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

  • διαφέρει δ’ εἰπεῖν, οἱο͂ν ῥοδοδάκτυλοσ ἠὼσ μᾶλλον ἢ φοινικοδάκτυλοσ, ἢ ἔτι φαυλότερον ἐρυθροδάκτυλοσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 2 13:11)

Synonyms

  1. crimson-fingered

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

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