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φοινικόλοφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοινικόλοφος φοινικόλοφον

Structure: φοινικολοφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. purple or crimson-crested

Examples

  • ὀρνίθων φοινικολόφων τοιοίδε κυδοιμοί. (Theocritus, Idylls, 50)

Synonyms

  1. purple or crimson-crested

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

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