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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

  • κατὰ δὲ νότιοσ ῥέεν ἱδρώσ, πυκναὶ δὲ σμώδιγγεσ ἀνὰ πλευράσ τε καὶ ὤμουσ αἵματι φοινικόεσσαι ἀνέδραμον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 65:8)

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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