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πολυστάφυλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυστάφυλος πολυστάφυλον

Structure: πολυσταφυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. rich in grapes

Examples

  • "καὶ ὃσ ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὸ κατορυχθῆναι, καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἔφυ ἄμπελοσ πολυστάφυλοσ, διὸ καὶ τὸν αὑτοῦ παῖδα Φύτιον ἐκάλεσε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2 2:2)
  • καί σε Νυσαίων ὀρέων κισσήρεισ ὄχθαι χλωρά τ’ ἀκτὰ πολυστάφυλοσ πέμπει, ἀμβρότων ἐπέων εὐαζόντων Θηβαί̈ασ ἐπισκοποῦντ’ ἀγυιάσ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. rich in grapes

Related

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

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