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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

  • ἀλλ’ οἳ μὲν αὐτῶν τὴν θανοῦσαν ἐκ χερῶν φύλλοισ ἔβαλλον, οἳ δὲ πληροῦσιν πυρὰν κορμοὺσ φέροντεσ πευκίνουσ, ὁ δ’ οὐ φέρων πρὸσ τοῦ φέροντοσ τοιάδ’ ἤκουεν κακά· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 4:5)

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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