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κισσήρης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κισσήρης κισσήρες

Structure: κισσηρη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kisso/s, A)/rw

Sense

  1. ivy-clad

Examples

  • καί σε Νυσαίων ὀρέων κισσήρεισ ὄχθαι χλωρά τ’ ἀκτὰ πολυστάφυλοσ πέμπει, ἀμβρότων ἐπέων εὐαζόντων Θηβαί̈ασ ἐπισκοποῦντ’ ἀγυιάσ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. ivy-clad

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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