Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σμυρνοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σμυρνοφόρος σμυρνοφόρον

Structure: σμυρνοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. bearing myrrh

Examples

  • κατὰ γὰρ τὴν θερινὴν ὡρ́αν, ὅταν ἄνεμοσ ἀπόγειοσ γένηται, συμβαίνει τὰσ ἀπὸ τῶν σμυρνοφόρων δένδρων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τοιούτων ἀποπνεομένασ εὐωδίασ διικνεῖσθαι πρὸσ τὰ πλησίον μέρη τῆσ θαλάττησ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 46 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. bearing myrrh

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

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