Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φοινικόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοινικόεις φοινικόεσσα φοινικόεν

Structure: φοινικοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: foi=nic

Sense

  1. dark-red, purple or crimson

Declension

First/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

  • ἐν δ’ Ἄρεοσ βλοσυροῖο ποδώκεεσ ἕστασαν ἵπποι χρύσεοι, ἐν δὲ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐναρσφόροσ οὔλιοσ Ἄρησ αἰχμὴν ἐν χείρεσσιν ἔχων, πρυλέεσσι κελεύων, αἵματι φοινικόεισ, ὡσ εἰ ζωοὺσ ἐναρίζων δίφρου ἐπεμβεβαώσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 19:1)

Synonyms

  1. dark-red

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

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