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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

  • ἔνθεν ἀεὶ ῥοδόεσσαν ἀναζείουσιν ἀυτμήν, ὡσ ἔτι τῆσ χρυσῆσ λουομένησ Παφίησ, εἰσ τὸ αὐτό τᾷδ’ ὑπὸ τὰσ πλατάνουσ ἁπαλῷ τετρυμένοσ ὕπνῳ εὗδεν Ἔρωσ, Νύμφαισ λαμπάδα παρθέμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 626 1:1)
  • ἡ τὰ ῥόδα, ῥοδόεσσαν ἔχεισ χάριν ἀλλὰ τί πωλεῖσ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 811)

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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