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ὀμβροδόκος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: ombrodokos

Principal Part: ὀμβροδόκος ὀμβροδόκον

Structure: ὀμβροδοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. receiving rain

Examples

  • Καρφαλέος δίψει Φοίβου λάτρις εὖτε γυναικὸς εἶδεν ὑπὲρ τύμβου κρωσσίον ὀμβροδόκον, κλάγξεν ὑπὲρ χείλους, ἀλλ οὐ γένυς ἥπτετο βυσσοῦ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2721)

Synonyms

  1. receiving rain

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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