Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

θριδάκινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θριδάκινος θριδάκινη θριδάκινον

Structure: θριδακιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from qri/dac

Sense

  1. of lettuce

Examples

  • ταύτην Ἀττικοὶ θριδακίνην καλοῦσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 792)
  • ἐν ἄλλοισ δὲ Θεόφραστοσ ἐπίσπορά φησι καλεῖσθαι τευτλίον, θριδακίνην, εὔζωμον, νᾶπυ, λάπαθον, κορίαννον, ἄνηθον, κάρδαμον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 81 2:1)

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

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