Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σπόριμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπόριμος σπόριμον

Structure: σποριμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spei/rw

Sense

  1. sown, to be sown, fit for sowing, the corn-fields, of seed-corn

Examples

  • ἔστι δ’’ ὁ μὴν οὗτοσ περὶ Πλειάδασ σπόριμοσ, ὃν Ἀθὺρ Αἰγύπτιοι, Πυανεψιῶνα δ’ Ἀθηναῖοι Βοιωτοὶ δὲ Δαμάτριον καλοῦσι. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 69 2:4)

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

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