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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

  • "ὣσ ἔφατ’, ὦρτο δ’ ἔπειτα Θόασ, Ἀνδραίμονοσ υἱόσ, καρπαλίμωσ, ἀπὸ δὲ χλαῖναν θέτο φοινικόεσσαν, βῆ δὲ θέειν ἐπὶ νῆασ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 45:1)
  • ἦ καὶ ἀπ’ ὤμοιϊν χλαῖναν θέτο φοινικόεσσαν ὀρθὸσ ἀναί̈ξασ, ἀπὸ δὲ ξίφοσ ὀξὺ θέτ’ ὤμων. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 11:1)
  • ὣσ εἰπὼν ἔνδυνε περὶ στήθεσσι χιτῶνα, ποσσὶ δ’ ὑπὸ λιπαροῖσιν ἐδήσατο καλὰ πέδιλα, ἀμφὶ δ’ ἄρα χλαῖναν περονήσατο φοινικόεσσαν διπλῆν ἐκταδίην, οὔλη δ’ ἐπενήνοθε λάχνη. (Homer, Iliad, Book 10 15:1)

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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