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νιφόβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νιφόβολος νιφόβολον

Structure: νιφοβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ba/llw

Sense

  1. snow-stricken, snowclad

Examples

  • ἡ δ’ ὑπερκειμένη ταύτησ πᾶσα ὀρεινὴ καὶ ψυχρὰ καὶ νιφόβολόσ ἐστιν, ἡ δὲ προσάρκτιοσ καὶ μᾶλλον, ὥστε καὶ τῶν ἀμπέλων σπάνιν εἶναι καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ὑψώσεσι καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἐπιπεδωτέροισ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 5 20:5)

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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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