Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πυροφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυροφόρος πυροφόρον

Structure: πυροφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: puro/s, fe/rw

Sense

  1. wheat-bearing

Examples

  • οὐδ’ ἵππων ὁρμὴ γίνεται ὠκυτέρη, αἵτε ἄνακτα φέρουσι δορυσσόον ἐσ πόνον ἀνδρῶν λάβρωσ πυροφόρῳ τερπόμεναι πεδίῳ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389555)

Synonyms

  1. wheat-bearing

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

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