Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

οἰνοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰνοφόρος οἰνοφόρον

Structure: οἰνοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. holding wine, a wine-jar, oenophrus

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ σοφὸσ Ἀρχέστρατόσ φησιν ἡνίκα δ’ ἂν δύνοντοσ ἐν οὐρανῷ ’ Ὠρίωνοσ μήτηρ οἰνοφόρου βότρυοσ χαίτην ἀποβάλλῃ, τῆμοσ ἔχειν ὀπτὸν σαργὸν τυρῷ κατάπαστον, εὐμεγέθη, θερμόν, δριμεῖ δεδαιγμένον ὄξει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 117 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. holding wine

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

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