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πολυφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυφόρος πολυφόρον

Structure: πολυφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. bearing much
  2. that will bear much water, that wants tempering

Examples

  • ἀμφότεραι γὰρ ὀρειναὶ καὶ πεδιάδεσ, εἴσ τε γεωργίαν μαλθακαὶ καὶ πολύφοροι κατάδενδροί τε καὶ ὀπώρασ ὀρεινῆσ καὶ ἡμέρου μεσταί, παρ’ ὅσον οὐδαμοῦ φύσει διψάδεσ, ὑόνται δὲ τὸ πλέον· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 63:1)

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

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