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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

  • ἑώρακα τὴν νύκτα καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ ἐπιβεβηκὼσ ἐπὶ ἵππον πυρρόν, καὶ οὗτοσ εἱστήκει ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ὀρέων τῶν κατασκίων, καὶ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ ἵπποι πυρροὶ καὶ ψαροὶ καὶ ποικίλοι καὶ λευκοί. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 1:8)
  • ἐν τῷ ἅρματι τῷ πρώτῳ ἵπποι πυρροί, καὶ ἐν τῷ ἅρματι τῷ δευτέρῳ ἵπποι μέλανεσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 6:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ τόθ’ ὑμεῖσ βδεόμενοι δήπου ’γένεσθε πυρροί; (Aristotle, Agon, antepirrheme 1:14)
  • "μεθ’ οὓσ οἱ πυρροί, οἱ δὲ λευκοὶ καὶ Λιβυκοὶ σκιλλώδεισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52184)
  • καὶ ταῦροι δ’ εἰσὶν ἄγριοι καὶ σαρκοφάγοι, μεγέθει πολὺ τοὺσ παρ’ ἡμῖν ὑπερβεβλημένοι καὶ τάχει, πυρροὶ τὴν χρόαν· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 31:9)

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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