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κρόκεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρόκεος κρόκεον

Structure: κροκε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kro/kos

Sense

  1. saffron-coloured

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἦλθέσ μοι χρυσῷ χαίταν μαρμαίρων, εὖτ’ ἐσ κόλπουσ κρόκεα πέταλα φάρεσιν ἔδρεπον, ἀνθίζειν χρυσανταυγῆ· (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. saffron-coloured

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

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