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τεφρός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεφρός τεφρή τεφρόν

Structure: τεφρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from te/fra

Sense

  1. ash-coloured

Examples

  • "μείζων ἐστὶ τῆσ περιστερᾶσ, χρῶμα δ’ ἔχει οἰνωπόν, ἡ δὲ φὰψ μέσον περιστερᾶσ καὶ οἰνάδοσ, ἡ δὲ φάσσα ἀλέκτοροσ τὸ μέγεθοσ, χρῶμα δὲ σποδιόν, ἡ δὲ τρυγὼν πάντων ἐλάττων, χρῶμα δὲ τεφρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 1:5)

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

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