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πύρριχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πύρριχος πύρριχη πύρριχον

Structure: πυρριχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: doric for purro/s

Sense

  1. red

Examples

  • Ἀριστόξενοσ δέ φησι τὴν πυρρίχην ἀπὸ Πυρρίχου Λάκωνοσ τὸ γένοσ τὴν προσηγορίαν λαβεῖν Λακωνικὸν δ’ εἶναι μέχρι καὶ νῦν ὄνομα τὸν Πύρριχον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 291)
  • τὸ δὲ ὄνομα τῇ πόλει γενέσθαι φασὶν ἀπὸ Πύρρου τοῦ Ἀχιλλέωσ, οἱ δὲ εἶναι θεὸν Πύρριχον τῶν καλουμένων Κουρήτων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 3:3)
  • μάλιστα μὲν φέρων ἐπὶ τοὺσ περὶ Ἄδμητον καὶ Πύρριχον καὶ Σάμον καὶ τοὺσ μετὰ τούτων ἀπολομένουσ· (Polybius, Histories, book 23, ii. res macedoniae 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. red

Related

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

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