Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κρίθινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρίθινος κρίθινη κρίθινον

Structure: κριθιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. made of or from barley

Examples

  • Ἀριστοτέλησ δέ φησιν ὅτι οἱ μὲν ὑπ’ οἴνου μεθυσθέντεσ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον φέρονται, οἱ δὲ τὸν κρίθινον πεπωκότεσ ἐξυπτιάζονται τὴν κεφαλὴν ὁ μὲν γὰρ οἶνοσ καρηβαρικόσ, ὁ δὲ κρίθινοσ καρωτικόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 61 1:5)
  • "ἐστὶ δὲ ποτίβαζισ ἄρτοσ κρίθινοσ καὶ πύρινοσ ὀπτὸσ καὶ κυπαρίσσου στέφανοσ καὶ οἶνοσ κεκραμένοσ ἐν ᾠῷ χρυσῷ, οὗ αὐτὸσ βασιλεὺσ πίνει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 110 2:3)
  • ἦσαν δὲ καὶ πυροὶ καὶ κριθαὶ καὶ ὄσπρια καὶ οἶνοσ κρίθινοσ ἐν κρατῆρσιν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 27:1)

Synonyms

  1. made of or from barley

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

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