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κύανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύανος κύανη κύανον

Structure: κυαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. cyanus, a dark-blue substance, blue steel
  2. the blue corn-flower

Examples

  • τούτου δὲ αὖ καταντικρὺ ὁ τέταρτοσ ἐκπίπτει εἰσ τόπον πρῶτον δεινόν τε καὶ ἄγριον, ὡσ λέγεται, χρῶμα δ’ ἔχοντα ὅλον οἱο͂ν ὁ κυανόσ, ὃν δὴ ἐπονομάζουσι Στύγιον, καὶ τὴν λίμνην ἣν ποιεῖ ὁ ποταμὸσ ἐμβάλλων, Στύγα· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 907:3)

Related

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

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