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κίσσινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κίσσινος κίσσινη κίσσινον

Structure: κισσιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kisso/s

Sense

  1. of ivy

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἕπου μοι κισσίνου βάκτρου μέτα, πειρῶ δ’ ἀνορθοῦν σῶμ’ ἐμόν, κἀγὼ τὸ σόν· (Euripides, episode 16:7)
  • Εὔμολποσ δὲ γένοσ τι ποτηρίου, ἴσωσ, φησίν, κατ’ ἀρχὰσ ἐκ κισσίνου κατασκευασθὲν ξύλου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 53 1:4)
  • εἰκάσειε δ’ ἄν τισ τὸ κισσύβιον τὸ πρῶτον ὑπὸ ποιμένων ἐργασθῆναι ἐκ κισσίνου ξύλου, ἄλλοι δὲ ἐτυμολογοῦσιν αὐτὸ ἀπὸ τοῦ χεῖσθαι, ὅ ἐστὶ χωρεῖν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 53 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. of ivy

Related

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

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