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λείριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λείριος λείριον

Structure: λειρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = leirio/eis, Pind.

Sense

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • πρῶτόν τε τῶν ἀνθέων ἐκφαίνεσθαί φησιν τὸ λευκόιον, ἅμα δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ φλόγινον καλούμενον τὸ ἄγριον, ἔπειτα νάρκισσον καὶ λείριον καὶ τῶν ἀγρίων ἀνεμώνησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 273)
  • Φιλῖνοσ δὲ τὸ κρίνον ὑφ’ ὧν μὲν λείριον, ὑφ’ ὧν δὲ ἰόν καλεῖσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 27 3:2)
  • τὸν δὲ Νάρκισσον ἐν τῷ σ’ περὶ Φυτῶν Ἱστορίασ ὁ Θεόφραστοσ καλεῖσθαί φησι καὶ λείριον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 28 3:1)
  • εἶθ’ ὑποβὰσ ὡσ διαλλάσσοντα τίθησιν νάρκισσαν καὶ λείριον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 28 3:2)
  • Μοῖσά τοι κολλᾷ χρυσὸν ἔν τε λευκὸν ἐλέφανθ’ ἁμᾷ καὶ λείριον ἄνθεμον ποντίασ ὑφελοῖσ’ ἐέρσασ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 7 22:5)

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

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