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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

  • ἀναγνωσθείσησ δὲ τῆσ ἐπιστολῆσ Χίοισ παρὼν Θεόκριτοσ ὁ σοφιστὴσ νῦν ἐγνωκέναι ἔφη τὸ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ εἰρημένον ἔλλαβε πορφύρεοσ θάνατοσ καὶ μοῖρα κραταιή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 55 6:2)
  • "ὅτι ὁ πορφύρεοσ Ὁμήρου θάνατοσ οὗτόσ ἐστιν. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 14 23:2)
  • κάροσ δέ μιν ἀμφεκάλυψεν πορφύρεοσ, γαῖαν δὲ πέριξ ἐδόκησε φέρεσθαι νειόθεν, ἀβληχρῷ δ’ ἐπὶ κώματι κέκλιτ’ ἄναυδοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 3:35)
  • ἔλλαβε πορφύρεοσ θάνατοσ καὶ μοῖρα κραταιή. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section13)
  • Ηὢσ ἐξ ἠοῦσ παραπέμπεται, εἶτ’, ἀμελούντων ἡμῶν, ἐξαίφνησ ἥξει ὁ πορφύρεοσ, καὶ τοὺσ μὲν τήξασ, τοὺσ δ’ ὀπτήσασ, ἐνίουσ δὲ φυσήσασ, ἄξει πάντασ ἐσ ἓν βάραθρον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 131)

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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