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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

  • κυανοειδὲσ ἀμφ’ ὕδωρ ἔτυχον ἕλικά τ’ ἀνὰ χλόαν φοίνικασ ἁλίου πέπλουσ αὐγαῖσιν ἐν χρυσέαισ ἀμφὶ δόνακοσ ἔρνεσιν θάλπουσα· (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • "μὲν γὰρ ἢ πῦρ οὐκ ἂν ἐν σκιᾷ διαφανείη μέλαν ἢ γλαυκὸν ἢ κυανοειδέσ· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 21 5:21)

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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