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πολύοινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολύοινος πολύοινον

Structure: πολυοιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. rich in wine

Examples

  • "τίσ ἡ Ἀνθηδών, περὶ ἧσ ἡ Πυθιὰσ εἶπε πῖν’ οἶνον τρυγίαν, ἐπεὶ οὐκ Ἀνθηδόνα ναίεισ ’ ἡ γὰρ ἐν Βοιωτοῖσ οὐκ ἔστι πολύοινοσ ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 191)
  • "τίσ ἡ Ἀνθηδών, περὶ ἧσ ἡ Πυθιὰσ εἶπε πῖν’ οἶνον τρυγίαν, ἐπεὶ οὐκ Ἀνθηδόνα ναίεισ ἡ γὰρ ἐν Βοιωτοῖσ οὐκ ἔστι πολύοινοσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 191)

Synonyms

  1. rich in wine

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

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