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πύξινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πύξινος πύξινη πύξινον

Structure: πυξιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu/cos

Sense

  1. made of box-wood

Examples

  • ἔχει δ’ ἕκαστοσ δικαστὴσ τὸ πινάκιον πύξινον, ἐπιγεγραμμένον τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἑαυτοῦ πατρόθεν καὶ τοῦ δήμου, καὶ γράμμα ἓν τῶν στοιχείων μέχρι τοῦ κ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 63 4:1)
  • ὣσ ἔφαθ’, οἳ δ’ ἄρα πατρὸσ ὑποδείσαντεσ ὁμοκλὴν ἐκ μὲν ἄμαξαν ἀείραν ἐύ̈τροχον ἡμιονείην καλὴν πρωτοπαγέα, πείρινθα δὲ δῆσαν ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ, κὰδ δ’ ἀπὸ πασσαλόφι ζυγὸν ᾕρεον ἡμιόνειον πύξινον ὀμφαλόεν εὖ οἰήκεσσιν ἀρηρόσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 24:1)
  • κεῖται δὲ καὶ ἄγαλμα πύξινον Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἐπιχρύσου τὴν κεφαλήν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 9:3)

Synonyms

  1. made of box-wood

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

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