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μελάνουρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελάνουρος

Etym.: ou)ra/

Sense

  1. the black-tail

Examples

  • Ἶρισ δ’ ἄγγελοσ ἦλθε ποδήνεμοσ, ὠκέα τευθίσ, πέρκη τ’ ἀνθεσίχρωσ καὶ ὁ δημοτικὸσ μελάνουροσ, ὃσ καὶ θνητὸσ ἐὼν ἕπετ’ ἰχθύσιν ἀθανάτοισιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 10:2)
  • κεστρεύσ, ἀνήρ, μελάνουροσ, οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅ τι λέγεισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 724)
  • μελάνουροσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 931)
  • "ὀρροπυγόστικτοι δὲ τῶν ἰχθύων μελάνουροσ καὶ σαργὸσ πολύγραμμοί τε καὶ μελανόγραμμοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 93 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. the black-tail

Related

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

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