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λυρόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυρόεις λυρόεσσα λυρόεν

Structure: λυροεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lu/ra

Sense

  1. fitted for the lyre, lyric

Examples

  • σκινδαψὸν λυρόεντα μέγαν χείρεσσι τινάσσων, οἰσύινον προμάλοιο τετυγμένον αἰζήεντοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 813)
  • ἀκμὴν οἱ λυρόεν τι μελίζεται ἀμφὶ Βαθύλλῳ ἵμερα, καὶ κισσοῦ λευκὸσ ὄδωδε λίθοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 303)

Synonyms

  1. fitted for the lyre

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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