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πυρίκαυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρίκαυστος πυρίκαυστον

Structure: πυρικαυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. burnt in fire

Examples

  • Ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτὸ τὸ ἕλκοσ ἱκανὸν σπληνίον τῇ λευκῇ κηρωτῇ κεχρισμένον‧ ἤν τε γὰρ σὰρξ, ἤν τε νεῦρον μελανθῇ, προσεκπεσεῖται‧ τὰ γὰρ τοιαῦτα οὐ χρὴ δριμέσιν ἰητρεύειν, ἀλλὰ μαλθακοῖσιν, ὥσπερ τὰ πυρίκαυστα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 27.7)

Synonyms

  1. burnt in fire

Related

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

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