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

  • ὦ φίλοσ, ἀλλὰ σὺ θᾶσσον ἔχ’ ἡνία φοινικόεντα ἵππων ὠκυπόδων· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 7:1)
  • πολλὸσ δὲ χρυσόσ τε καὶ ἄργυροσ ἔνδον ἔκειτο, πολλὰ δὲ φοινικόεντα καὶ ἄργυφα εἵματα νύμφησ, οἱᾶ θεῶν μακάρων ἱεροὶ δόμοι ἐντὸσ ἔχουσιν· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 25:11)
  • ἡνία δή τοι παῖδεσ ἐνί, τράγε, φοινικόεντα θέντεσ καὶ λασίῳ φιμὰ περὶ στόματι, ἵππια παιδεύουσι θεοῦ περὶ ναὸν ἀέθλα, ὄφρ’ αὐτοὺσ ἐφορῇ νήπια τερπομένουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3121)

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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