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φυλλοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυλλοφόρος φυλλοφόρον

Structure: φυλλοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. bearing leaves, in which the prize is a crown of leaves

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἐμὲ χρὴ μναμοσύναν ἀνεγείροντα φράσαι χειρῶν ἀώτον Βλεψιάδαισ ἐπίνικον, ἕκτοσ οἷσ ἤδη στέφανοσ περίκειται φυλλοφόρων ἀπ’ ἀγώνων. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 8 20:1)

Synonyms

  1. bearing leaves

Similar forms

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

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