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κυανόχρους

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυανόχρους κυανόχρουν

Structure: κυανοχρο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xro/a

Sense

  1. dark-coloured, dark-looking

Examples

  • οἳ ναίετ’ οὐράνιοι, σωτῆρεσ τᾶσ Ἑλένασ, γλαυκὸν ἔπιτ’ οἶδμα κυανόχροά τε κυμάτων ῥόθια πολιὰ θαλάσσασ, ναύταισ εὐαεῖσ ἀνέμων πέμποντεσ Διόθεν πνοάσ· (Euripides, Helen, choral, antistrophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. dark-coloured

Similar forms

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

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