Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κροκόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κροκόεις κροκόεσσα κροκόεν

Structure: κροκοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kro/kos

Sense

  1. saffron-coloured

Examples

  • ἁ δὲ κατ’ αὐτὸν καρπῷ ἕλιξ εἱλεῖται ἀγαλλομένα κροκόεντι. (Theocritus, Idylls, 18)

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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