Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ὄρφνινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρφνινος ὄρφνινη ὄρφνινον

Structure: ὀρφνιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)/rfnh

Sense

  1. brownish gray

Examples

  • "αἱ δὲ χλαμύδεσ αὐτοῦ ἦσαν ὄρφνινον ἔχουσαι τὸ φέγγοσ τῆσ χρόασ, τὸ δὲ πᾶν ἐνύφαντο χρυσοῦσ ἀστέρασ ἔχον καὶ τὰ δώδεκα ζῴδια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:32)
  • ὄρφνινον δέ, ὅταν τούτοισ μεμειγμένοισ καυθεῖσίν τε μᾶλλον συγκραθῇ μέλαν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 330:1)

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

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