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κυανοειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυανοειδής κυανοειδές

Structure: κυανοειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. dark-blue, deep-blue

Examples

  • "καὶ τέλοσ ἤδη πρὸσ ἑώ λαμβάνει χρόαν κυανοειδῆ καὶ χαροπήν, ἀφ’ ἧσ δὴ καὶ μάλιστα γλαυκῶπιν αὐτὴν οἱ ποιηταὶ καὶ Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ ἀνακαλοῦνται. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 21 5:15)

Synonyms

  1. dark-blue

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

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