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μηλοδόκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηλοδόκος μηλοδόκον

Structure: μηλοδοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: de/xomai

Sense

  1. sheep-receiving

Examples

  • ἐν δ’ ἄρα μηλοδόκῳ Πυθῶνι τόσσαισ ἀί̈εν ναοῦ βασιλεὺσ Λοξίασ, κοινᾶνι παρ’ εὐθυτάτῳ γνώμαν πιθών, πάντα ἰσάντι νόῳ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 3 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. sheep-receiving

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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