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πυρρός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυρρός πυρρή πυρρόν

Structure: πυρρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. flame-coloured, yellowish-red, with red hair
  2. red, tawny
  3. red with blushes, red

Examples

  • οὐ κεντεῖ τὸ φίλαμ’, ἔτι οἱ περὶ χείλεα πυρρά. (Theocritus, Idylls, 142)
  • τὰ δὲ χρώματα οὐ χρὴ εἶναι τῶν κυνῶν οὔτε πυρρὰ οὔτε μέλανα οὔτε λευκὰ παντελῶσ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 8:1)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ φυτῶν ἐνιαχοῦ φησιν ὕδωρ γίνεσθαι παιδογόνον ὡσ ἐν Θεσπιαῖσ, ἐν Πύρρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 15 2:1)
  • καὶ τῶν γλυκέων δέ φησιν ὑδάτων ἔνια ἄγονα ἢ οὐ πολύγονα, ὡσ τὸ ἐν Φέτᾳ καὶ τὸ ἐν Πύρρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 15 2:3)
  • ’εἰ μέν τισ ἀκρατέστερον ἔπιεν, ἐλύπει σέ τούτῳ ὅμοιόν ἐστι τὸ ’ ἀνιηρέστερον καὶ τὸ ἐν Ἡλιάσιν Αἰσχύλου ’ἀφθονέστερον λίβα καὶ Ἐπίχαρμοσ δὲ ἐν Πύρρᾳ εὐωνέστερον ἔφη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 241)
  • πάλιν δ’ ὁ Ἐπίχαρμοσ ἐν Πύρρᾳ καὶ Προμαθεῖ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 31 2:2)
  • φέροισ δὲ Πρωτογενείασ ἄστει γλῶσσαν, ἵν’ αἰολοβρόντα Διὸσ αἴσᾳ Πύρρα Δευκαλίων τε Παρνασοῦ καταβάντε δόμον ἔθεντο πρῶτον, ἄτερ δ’ εὐνᾶσ ὁμόδαμον κτισσάσθαν λίθινον γόνον· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 9 11:3)

Synonyms

  1. red

  2. red with blushes

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

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