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σιτοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιτοφόρος σιτοφόρον

Structure: σιτοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. carrying corn or provisions

Examples

  • ποίασ μὲν γὰρ λείπεται σιτοφόρου μὴ ποταμοῖσ, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ οὐρανίοισ ὕδασιν ἀρδομένησ τὰ καλούμενα Καμπανῶν πεδία, ἐν οἷσ ἐγὼ καὶ τρικάρπουσ ἐθεασάμην ἀρούρασ θερινὸν ἐπὶ χειμερινῷ καὶ μετοπωρινὸν ἐπὶ θερινῷ σπόρον ἐκφερούσασ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 37 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. carrying corn or provisions

Related

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

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