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πυριγενής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυριγενής πυριγενές

Structure: πυριγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. born in fire, wrought by fire

Examples

  • , τὰ μὲν εἶναι χερσαῖα, τὰ δὲ ἔνυδρα, τὰ δὲ πυριγενῆ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 496)
  • πιεῖν πιεῖν τισ ἐγχείτω λαβὼν πυριγενῆ κυκλοτερῆ βραχύωτον παχύστομον κώθωνα, παῖδα φάρυγοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 4:2)
  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ πυριγενῆ διὰ τὴν ὁμοίαν αἰτίαν ὠνομάσθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 5 1:3)
  • ἀστεϊζόμενοι δέ τινεσ εἰκότωσ πυριγενῆ τὸν Διόνυσον λέγεσθαί φασιν, ἐκ τῶν τοιούτων χωρίων τεκμαιρόμενοι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 18:9)

Synonyms

  1. born in fire

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

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