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ἠρινός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἠρινός ἠρινή ἠρινόν

Structure: ἠριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h)=r

Sense

  1. of or in spring, in spring

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὦ καλλιβόαν κρέκουσ’ αὐλὸν φθέγμασιν ἠρινοῖσ, ἄρχου τῶν ἀναπαίστων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, prelude2)
  • ἄμεινον οὖν ἐστιν ἐγνωκότασ τὴν μὲν μειρακίων ὡρ́αν τοῖσ ἠρινοῖσ ἄνθεσιν ἐοικυῖαν ὀλιγοχρόνιόν τε τὴν τέρψιν ἔχουσαν, ἐπαινεῖν τε τὴν Λεσβίαν λέγουσαν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , unknown meters7)

Synonyms

  1. of or in spring

Related

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

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