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κόλουρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόλουρος κόλουρον

Structure: κολουρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/los, ou)ra/

Sense

  1. dock-tailed

Examples

  • "ἐπὶ δὲ τὸ πλεῖστον αἱ κόλουροι καὶ φορμύνιοι καὶ δίφοροι καὶ Μεγαρικαὶ καὶ Λακωνικαὶ συμφέρουσιν, ἐὰν ἔχωσιν ὕδωρ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 630)
  • τρίμετρον μείουρον ἢ κόλουρον νικῶ δίαυλον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 13, chapter 51)

Synonyms

  1. dock-tailed

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

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