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πρῖνος?

Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration: prīnos

Principal Part: πρῖνος

Sense

  1. the evergreen oak, ilex, the scarlet, quercus coccifera

Examples

  • σὺ δ εὐθὺς ὥσπερ πρῖνος ἐμπρησθεὶς βοᾷς. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene20)
  • ὁ συκάμινος συκάμιν, ὁρᾷς, φέρει, ὁ πρῖνος ἀκύλους, ὁ κόμαρος μιμαίκυλα Θεόφραστος: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 35 2:2)
  • ὑπὲρ δὲ τὸ καλούμενον Μέγαρόν ἐστιν ἄλσος τῆς Δεσποίνης ἱερὸν θριγκῷ λίθων περιεχόμενον, ἐντὸς δὲ αὐτοῦ δένδρα καὶ ἄλλα καὶ ἐλαία καὶ πρῖνος ἐκ ῥίζης μιᾶς πεφύκασι: (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 37 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. the evergreen oak

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

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