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θυοδόκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυοδόκος θυοδόκον

Structure: θυοδοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/os, de/xomai

Sense

  1. receiving incense, full thereof, odorous

Examples

  • πρόσπολοι γυναῖκεσ, αἳ τῶνδ’ ἀμφὶ κρηπῖδασ δόμων θυοδόκων φρούρημ’ ἔχουσαι δεσπότιν φυλάσσετε, ἐκλέλοιπ’ ἤδη τὸν ἱερὸν τρίποδα καὶ χρηστήριον Ξοῦθοσ, ἢ μίμνει κατ’ οἶκον ἱστορῶν ἀπαιδίαν; (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees1)
  • τίσ οἴκων θυοδόκων ὑπερτελὴσ ἀντήλιον πρόσωπον ἐκφαίνει θεῶν; (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic23)

Similar forms

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

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