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λυχνοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυχνοφόρος λυχνοφόρον

Structure: λυχνοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. carrying a lamp

Examples

  • καὶ τὸν ληφθέντα ἀπετυμπάνιζεν, ὧν ἐνίουσ καὶ προκατανάλισκε ταῖσ βασάνοισ, ἐκήρυσσέν τε δύντοσ ἡλίου πάντασ οἰκουρεῖν καὶ μετὰ λυχνοφόρου μηδένα φοιτᾶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 52 4:1)

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

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