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πορφύρεος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πορφύρεος πορφύρεᾱ πορφύρεον

Structure: πορφυρε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from porfu/rw

Sense

  1. darkgleaming, dark;
  2. dark, russet.
  3. bright, lustrous;, glittering. -
  4. dark red, purple or crimson
  5. purple-clad, in purple

Examples

  • "λάμπει δ’ ἐπὶ πορφυρέαισ παρῇσι φῶσ ἔρωτοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 8110)
  • ὁ δ’ ἀκρήτουσ χέε λοιβὰσ Αἰσονίδησ, γήθει δὲ σέλασ θηεύμενοσ Ἴδμων πάντοσε λαμπόμενον θυέων ἄπο τοῖό τε λιγνὺν πορφυρέαισ ἑλίκεσσιν ἐναίσιμον ἀίσσουσαν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 8:24)

Synonyms

  1. dark red

Related

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

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