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πίσυνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πίσυνος πίσυνον

Structure: πισυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pei/qw

Sense

  1. trusting on, relying or depending on, confiding in

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

  • τούτοισι δή μιν πίσυνον τοῖσι ἐνυπνίοισι, παραλαβόντα Αἰγυπτίων τοὺσ βουλομένουσ οἱ ἕπεσθαι, στρατοπεδεύσασθαι ἐν Πηλουσίῳ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 141 5:1)
  • ἄλλον δ’ ἰχθὺν μεγέθει πίσυνόν τινα τοῖσδε τόποισ ἥκει κομίσασ Γλαῦκόσ τισ ἐν πόντῳ γ’ ἁλούσ, ὁ σῖτον ὀψοφάγων, καὶ λίχνων ἀνδρῶν ἀγάπημα φέρων κατ’ ὤμων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 27 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. trusting on

Related

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

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