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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

  • κυανόχρωσ δ’ ἀμίασ ἐπὶ τοῖσ μέγασ, ὅσ τε θαλάσσησ πάσησ βένθεα οἶδε, Ποσειδάωνοσ ὑποδμώσ, καρῖδὲσ θ’, αἳ Ζηνὸσ Ὀλυμπίου εἰσὶν ἀοιδή,1 αἳ δὴ γήραι κυφαὶ ἔσαν, χρησταὶ δὲ πάσασθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 11:4)

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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