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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

  • Περὶ πυρικαύστου‧ ἑψεῖν χρὴ πρίνου Ῥίζασ ἁπαλὰσ, ᾗ ὁ φλοιόσ ἐστι παχύτατοσ καὶ χλωρότατοσ, καταταμὼν μικρὰ, οἶνον λευκὸν ἐπιχέασ, μαλθακῷ πυρὶ καθεψεῖν, ἑώσ ἂν δοκέῃ καλῶσ ἔχειν τὸ πάχοσ, ὡσ ὑπάλειπτον, καὶ ἐν ὕδατι τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 22.1)

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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