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πίσινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πίσινος πίσινη πίσινον

Structure: πισιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. made of peas, pea-

Examples

  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἔτνοσ γε πίσινον εὔχρων καὶ καλόν· (Aristotle, Episode21)
  • καὶ μὴν ῥαφάνουσ γ’ ἕψουσι λιπαράσ, ὦ θεοί, ἔτνοσ θ’ ἅμ’ αὐταῖσ πίσινον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 10 2:2)

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

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