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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)
  • εἰπέ μοι, τί τοῦτό σοι τὸ πυρρόν ἐστιν; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode16)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, αὐτοῦ τι δρῶντα πυρρὸν ὄψει μ’ αὐτίκα ὑπὸ τοῦ δέουσ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 3:11)
  • διὸ καὶ πέμψαντεσ αὖθισ ἐπανήροντο τὸν θεὸν ἡ δὲ Πυθία καθάπερ ἐκβεβαιουμένη τὴν προτέραν ἀναγόρευσιν εἶπε τὸν πυρρὸν τοί φημι, τὸν Ἀρχεδίκη τέκε παῖδα. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 21 4:2)
  • ἡ δὲ Πυθία καθάπερ ἐκβεβαιουμένη τὴν προτέραν ἀναγόρευσιν εἶπε τὸν πυρρόν τοί φημι, τὸν Ἀρχεδίκη τέκε παῖδα. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 21 12:1)
  • καὶ τί θαυμαστὸν εἰ τοῦτο ἔπαθεσ, ἀνόητοσ καὶ ἀπαίδευτοσ ἄνθρωποσ, καὶ προῄεισ ἐξυπτιάζων καὶ μιμούμενοσ βάδισμα καὶ σχῆμα καὶ βλέμμα ἐκείνου ᾧ σεαυτὸν εἰκάζων ἔχαιρεσ, ὅπου καὶ Πύρρον φασὶ τὸν Ἠπειρώτην, τὰ ἄλλα θαυμαστὸν ἄνδρα, οὕτωσ ὑπὸ κολάκων ἐπὶ τῷ ὁμοίῳ ποτὲ διαφθαρῆναι ὡσ πιστεύειν ὅτι ὅμοιοσ ἦν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἐκείνῳ; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 21:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἕνεκα μὲν δὴ τούτων ὕβρισταί μοι εἰσ τὸν Πύρρον, ὅτι σὲ εἴκασα κατὰ τοῦτο αὐτῷ· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 21:4)
  • οἱο͂ν πάλαι μὲν Ἀγαμέμνονα καὶ Ἀχιλλέα, τῶν κάτω δὲ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ Πύρρον ἴσμεν γεγονότασ. (Lucian, (no name) 1:5)

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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