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ὁλοπόρφυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁλοπόρφυρος ὁλοπόρφυρον

Structure: ὁλοπορφυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: porfu/ra

Sense

  1. all-purple

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ὁλοπόρφυρος ὁλοπόρφυρον
Genitive ὁλοπορφύρου ὁλοπορφύρου
Dative ὁλοπορφύρῳ ὁλοπορφύρῳ
Accusative ὁλοπόρφυρον ὁλοπόρφυρον
Vocative ὁλοπόρφυρε ὁλοπόρφυρον
DualN/A/V ὁλοπορφύρω ὁλοπορφύρω
G/D ὁλοπορφύροιν ὁλοπορφύροιν
PluralNominative ὁλοπόρφυροι ὁλοπόρφυρα
Genitive ὁλοπορφύρων ὁλοπορφύρων
Dative ὁλοπορφύροις ὁλοπορφύροις
Accusative ὁλοπορφύρους ὁλοπόρφυρα
Vocative ὁλοπόρφυροι ὁλοπόρφυρα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὁλοπόρφυρος ὁλοπορφύρου ὁλοπορφυρώτερος ὁλοπορφυρωτέρου ὁλοπορφυρώτατος ὁλοπορφυρωτάτου
Adverb ὁλοπορφύρως ὁλοπορφυρώτερον ὁλοπορφυρώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν τὴν προκειμένην ἐπιβαλοῦσιν ἐπ’ αὐτὴν ἱμάτιον ὁλοπόρφυρον καὶ τὰ τρυβλία καὶ τὰσ θυί̈σκασ καὶ τοὺσ κυάθουσ καὶ τὰ σπονδεῖα, ἐν οἷσ σπένδει, καὶ οἱ ἄρτοι οἱ διαπαντὸσ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ ἔσονται. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 4:7)
  • καὶ τὸν καλυπτῆρα ἐπιθήσει ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον καὶ ἐπικαλύψουσιν ἐπ’ αὐτὸ ἱμάτιον ὁλοπόρφυρον. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 4:13)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τούτοισ ἤδη αὐτὸσ ἐκ τῶν πυλῶν προυφαίνετο ὁ Κῦροσ ἐφ’ ἁρ́ματοσ ὀρθὴν ἔχων τὴν τιάραν καὶ χιτῶνα πορφυροῦν μεσόλευκον ἄλλῳ δ’ οὐκ ἔξεστι μεσόλευκον ἔχειν, καὶ περὶ τοῖσ σκέλεσιν ἀναξυρίδασ ὑσγινοβαφεῖσ, καὶ κάνδυν ὁλοπόρφυρον. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. all-purple

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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