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πῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πῖος πῖη πῖον

Structure: πι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic form of pi/wn

Sense

  1. unctuous

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἶνον πίοισ ἂν ἀσφαλέστερον πολὺ ὑδαρῆ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 36 2:2)
  • τί δῆτ’ ἂν εἰ πίοισ οἴνου κύλικα λεπαστήν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 70 1:3)

Related

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

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