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πεύκινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεύκινος πεύκινη πεύκινον

Structure: πευκιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: peu/kh

Sense

  1. of or from pine or pine-wood, of the pine

Examples

  • κατασχόντεσ δ’ αὐτὴν Βαστάρναι Πευκῖνοι προσηγορεύθησαν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 30:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ Ἄτμονοι λέγονταί τινεσ καὶ Σιδόνεσ, οἱ δὲ τὴν Πεύκην κατασχόντεσ τὴν ἐν τῷ Ἴστρῳ νῆσον Πευκῖνοι, Ῥωξολανοὶ δ’ ἀρκτικώτατοι τὰ μεταξὺ τοῦ Τανάιδοσ καὶ Βορυσθένουσ νεμόμενοι πεδία. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 34:7)

Synonyms

  1. of or from pine or pine-wood

Related

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

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