Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τρυφηλός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρυφηλός τρυφηλή τρυφηλόν

Structure: τρυφηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: rare poet. form of trufero/s, Anth.

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Examples

  • Αἰθαλέοιο πυρὸσ σάρκεσ ῥιπῇσι τρυφηλαὶ ληφθεῖσαι, νοτίην ὦσαν ἄπ’ αἰθόμεναι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 481)
  • τά τε σώματα αὐτοῖσ μεγάλα ὄντα καὶ τρυφηλὰ καὶ σαρκῶν ὑγρῶν μεστὰ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀδηφαγίασ καὶ μέθησ ἐσ ὄγκον καὶ βάροσ ἐξεχεῖτο, καὶ πρὸσ δρόμουσ καὶ πόνουσ ἀδύνατα πάμπαν ἐγίγνετο· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:29)

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

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