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τανύφλοιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τανύφλοιος τανύφλοιον

Structure: τανυφλοι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tanu/w

Sense

  1. with long-stretched bark, of tall or slender growth

Examples

  • ὡσ δ’ Εὖρόσ τε Νότοσ τ’ ἐριδαίνετον ἀλλήλοιιν οὔρεοσ ἐν βήσσῃσ βαθέην πελεμιζέμεν ὕλην φηγόν τε μελίην τε τανύφλοιόν τε κράνειαν, αἵ τε πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ ἔβαλον τανυήκεασ ὄζουσ ἠχῇ θεσπεσίῃ, πάταγοσ δέ τε ἀγνυμενάων, ὣσ Τρῶεσ καὶ Ἀχαιοὶ ἐπ’ ἀλλήλοισι θορόντεσ δῄουν, οὐδ’ ἕτεροι μνώοντ’ ὀλοοῖο φόβοιο. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 65:1)

Synonyms

  1. with long-stretched bark

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

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