Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κήρινος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κήρινος κήρινη κήρινον

Structure: κηριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: khro/s

Sense

  1. of wax, waxen, pliable as wax, cereus in vitium flecti)

Examples

  • ἡμῖν δ’ ἐδείκνυτο καὶ τῶν Θράσωνόσ τινα, οὗπερ καὶ τὸ Ἑκατήσιόν ἐστι καὶ ἡ κηρίνη Πηνελόπη καὶ ἡ πρεσβῦτισ ἡ Εὐρύκλεια. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 40:3)

Related

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

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