Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πυρρόομαι

ο-contract Verb; 이상동사 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρρόομαι

Structure: πυρρό (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to become red

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἡσαῦ τῷ Ἰακώβ. γεῦσόν με ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑψήματοσ τοῦ πυρροῦ τούτου, ὅτι ἐκλείπω. διὰ τοῦτο ἐκλήθη τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐδώμ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 25:30)
  • καίτοι τὸ τῶν μουσικῶν τοῦτο, δὶσ διὰ πασῶν τὸ πρᾶγμα ἦν εἶδον γὰρ καὶ τὴν τοῦ Πύρρου εἰκόνα· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 21:2)
  • ἄξιον δὲ καὶ Πύρρου τοῦ Ἠπειρώτου μνησθῆναι, ἀνδρὸσ μετὰ Ἀλέξανδρον τὰ δεύτερα ἐν στρατηγίαισ ἐνεγκαμένου καὶ μυρίασ τροπὰσ τῆσ τύχησ· (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 21:1)
  • ὁ Πύρρου παῖσ καὶ Κλέαρχοσ, οὐχ ὁ τῶν μυρίων Ἑλλήνων ἐπὶ βασιλέα ἡγησάμενοσ, ἀλλ̓ ἄλλοσ οὗτοσ Κλέαρχοσ. (Arrian, chapter 1 1:1)
  • "Πύρρου δὲ τοῦ Ἠπειρωτῶν βασιλέωσ, ὃσ ἦν τρίτοσ ἀπὸ Πύρρου τοῦ ἐπ’ Ἰταλίαν στρατεύσαντοσ, ἐρωμένη ἦν Τίγρισ ἡ Λευκαδία· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 55 1:31)

Synonyms

  1. to become red

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

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