Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁλοπόρφυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁλοπόρφυρος ὁλοπόρφυρον

Structure: ὁλοπορφυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: porfu/ra

Sense

  1. all-purple

Examples

  • παραπλησίωσ δὲ καὶ τὰσ τῶν ὀρνέων μορφὰσ ἐπιχρῴζεσθαι, τὰσ μὲν ὁλοπορφύρουσ φαινομένασ, τὰσ δὲ κατὰ μέροσ παντοίαισ χρόαισ διειλημμένασ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 52 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. all-purple

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

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