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φυτουργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυτουργός φυτουργόν

Structure: φυτουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/rgw

Sense

  1. working at plants;, a gardener, vinedresser
  2. begetting, the author

Examples

  • <αὐτὸσ ὁ> πατὴρ φυτουργὸσ αὐτόχειρ ἄναξ γένουσ παλαιόφρων μέγασ τέκτων, τὸ πᾶν μῆχαρ οὔριοσ Ζεύσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 52)
  • ἃ σὺν πόνῳ φυτουργὸσ ἔκτηται Μίδων, ὃσ κἀμὲ θῆκεν ἢν δέ μευ παρακλύῃσ, γνώσῃ τὸν Ἑρμῆν, ὡσ κακοὺσ ἀμείβομαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 255 1:1)

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

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