Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κρόκινος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρόκινος κρόκινη κρόκινον

Structure: κροκιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kro/kos

Sense

  1. of saffron

Examples

  • "κρόκινον δ’ ἐν Σόλοισ τοῖσ Κιλικίοισ καὶ ἐν Ῥόδῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:19)
  • "τὸ δ’ οἰνάνθινον εὐστόμαχον ὂν καὶ τὴν διάνοιαν ἀπαραπόδιστον φυλάσσει, καὶ τὸ σαμψούχινον δὲ καὶ ἑρπύλλινον ἐπιτήδεια πρὸσ πότον καὶ κρόκινον τὸ χωρὶσ σμύρνησ πολλῆσ, καὶ ἡ στακτὴ δὲ ἐπιτήδειοσ πρὸσ πότον, ἔτι δὲ νάρδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:41)
  • Θεόφραστοσ δὲ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ὀδμῶν συντίθεσθαί φησι μύρα ἀπ’ ἀνθέων μὲν ῥόδινον καὶ λευκόινον καὶ σούσινον καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο ἐκ τῶν κρίνων, ἔτι δὲ τὸ σισύμβρινον καὶ ἑρπύλλινον, ἔτι δὲ κύπρινον καὶ κρόκινον βέλτιστον δ’ ἐν Αἰγίνῃ καὶ Κιλικίᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:44)

Synonyms

  1. of saffron

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

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