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πνιγόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πνιγόεις πνιγόεσσα πνιγόεν

Structure: πνιγοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = pnighro/s, Anth.

Sense

Examples

  • "Νίκανδροσ δ’ ἐν Γεωργικοῖσ καταλέγει καὶ τίνεσ αὐτῶν εἰσιν οἱ θανάσιμοι, λέγων ἐχθρὰ δ’ ἐλαίησ ῥοιῆσ τε πρίνου τε δρυὸσ τ’ ἄπο πήματα κεῖται, οἰδαλέων σύγκολλα βάρη πνιγόεντα μυκήτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5278)

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

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