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ῥοδόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥοδόεις ῥοδόεσσα ῥοδόεν

Structure: ῥοδοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: r(o/don

Sense

  1. of roses
  2. rose-coloured

Examples

  • φθόνοσ εὐρυβίασ νιν ἀπώλεσεν, δνόφεόν τε κάλυμμα τῶν ὕστερον ἐρχομένων, ὅτ’ ἐπὶ ῥοδόεντι Λυκόρμᾳ δέξατο Νέσσου πάρα δαιμόνιον τέρ[ασ. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 16 <[H(raklh=s]> 3:2)
  • "ῥοδόεντι δ’ ἔχριεν ἐλαίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:10)
  • "καὶ ἡ Ἀφροδίτη δὲ παρ’ αὐτῷ τὸν Ἕκτοροσ νεκρὸν ῥοδόεντι ἔχριεν ἐλαίῳ ἀμβροσίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:12)
  • τὸν δ’ οὐ κύνεσ ἀμφεπένοντο, ἀλλὰ κύνασ μὲν ἄλαλκε Διὸσ θυγάτηρ Ἀφροδίτη ἤματα καὶ νύκτασ, ῥοδόεντι δὲ χρῖεν ἐλαίῳ ἀμβροσίῳ, ἵνα μή μιν ἀποδρύφοι ἑλκυστάζων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 18:2)

Synonyms

  1. of roses

  2. rose-coloured

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

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