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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative πυρρός πυρρᾱ́ πυρρόν
Genitive πυρροῦ πυρρᾶς πυρροῦ
Dative πυρρῷ πυρρᾷ πυρρῷ
Accusative πυρρόν πυρρᾱ́ν πυρρόν
Vocative πυρρέ πυρρᾱ́ πυρρόν
DualN/A/V πυρρώ πυρρᾱ́ πυρρώ
G/D πυρροῖν πυρραῖν πυρροῖν
PluralNominative πυρροί πυρραί πυρρά
Genitive πυρρῶν πυρρῶν πυρρῶν
Dative πυρροῖς πυρραῖς πυρροῖς
Accusative πυρρούς πυρρᾱ́ς πυρρά
Vocative πυρροί πυρραί πυρρά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective πυρρός πυρροῦ πυρρότερος πυρροτεροῦ πυρρότατος πυρροτατοῦ
Adverb πυρρώς πυρρότερον πυρρότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "τῶν δὲ μελάνων καὶ πυρρῶν οἱ μείζονεσ καὶ εὔσαρκοι εὔστομοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 3:3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἡ μὲν Γραφικὴ πάρεστιν, ὦ Δίκη, ὁ Πύρρων δὲ οὐδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀνελήλυθεν, καὶ ἐῴκει τοῦτο πράξειν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 25:1)
  • ἐπὶ μιᾶσ δέ τινοσ εὐχῆσ καὶ ἀποροῦντα αὐτὸν ἐθεασάμην δύο γὰρ ἀνδρῶν τἀναντία εὐχομένων καὶ τὰσ ἴσασ θυσίασ ὑπισχνουμένων οὐκ εἶχεν ὁποτέρῳ μᾶλλον ἐπινεύσειεν αὐτῶν, ὥστε δὴ τὸ Ἀκαδημαϊκὸν ἐκεῖνο ἐπεπόνθει καὶ οὐδέν τι ἀποφήνασθαι δυνατὸσ ἦν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ὁ Πύρρων ἐπεῖχεν ἔτι καὶ διεσκέπτετο. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 25:11)
  • "διὰ τί τοῦ θριαμβεύσαντοσ εἶτ’ ἀποθανόντοσ καὶ καέντοσ ἐξῆν ὀστέον λαβόντασ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν εἰσφέρειν καὶ κατατίθεσθαι, ὡσ Πύρρων ὁ Λιπαραῖοσ ἱστόρηκεν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 791)
  • "διὰ τί τοῦ θριαμβεύσαντοσ εἶτ’ ἀποθανόντοσ καὶ καέντοσ ἐξῆν ὀστέον λαβόντασ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν εἰσφέρειν καὶ κατατίθεσθαι, ὡσ Πύρρων ὁ Λιπαραῖοσ ἱστόρηκεν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 791)

Synonyms

  1. red

  2. red with blushes

Related

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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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