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πυρογενής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρογενής πυρογενές

Structure: πυρογενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: puro/s, gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. made from wheat

Examples

  • τῷ σε χρὴ καλέειν Δημήτριον, οὐ Διόνυσον, πυρογενῆ μᾶλλον καὶ Βρόμον, οὐ Βρόμιον· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 368 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. made from wheat

Similar forms

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

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