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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

  • 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)
  • λαμπρῷ δὲ λευκὸν συνελθὸν καὶ εἰσ μέλαν κατακορὲσ ἐμπεσὸν κυανοῦν χρῶμα ἀποτελεῖται, κυανοῦ δὲ λευκῷ κεραννυμένου γλαυκόν, πυρροῦ δὲ μέλανι πράσιον. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 330:3)
  • 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. 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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