Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τριχοίνικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριχοίνικος τριχοίνικον

Structure: τριχοινικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xoi=nic

Sense

  1. holding or measuring three xoi/nikes, most capacious

Examples

  • "Ἀρκὰσ δέ τισ Ἀρύστασ ὄνομα, φαγεῖν δεινόσ, τὸ μὲν διαρριπτεῖν εἰά χαίρειν, λαβὼν δ’ εἰσ τὴν χεῖρα ὅσον τριχοίνικον ἄρτον καὶ κρέα θέμενοσ ἐπὶ τὰ γόνατα ἐδείπνει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 35 1:8)
  • Ἀρκὰσ δέ τισ Ἀρύστασ ὄνομα, φαγεῖν δεινόσ, τὸ μὲν διαρριπτεῖν εἰά χαίρειν, λαβὼν δὲ εἰσ τὴν χεῖρα ὅσον τριχοίνικον ἄρτον καὶ κρέα θέμενοσ ἐπὶ τὰ γόνατα ἐδείπνει. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 28:2)

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

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