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πυριλαμπής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυριλαμπής πυριλαμπές

Structure: πυριλαμπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: la/mpw

Sense

  1. bright with fire

Examples

  • τοῦ μὲν δὴ τὴν εἰκόνα ἐποίησεν Ὄλυμποσ, Πυριλάμπει δὲ ὁμώνυμοσ καὶ ὁ πλάστησ, γένοσ δὲ οὐ Σικυώνιοσ, ἀλλὰ ἐκ Μεσσήνησ τῆσ ὑπὸ τῇ Ἰθώμῃ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. bright with fire

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

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