Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τυρόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τυρόεις τυρόεσσα τυρόεν

Structure: τυροεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: turo/s

Sense

  1. like cheese, a cheese

Examples

  • περισπαστέον δὲ λέγοντασ πλακοῦσ τὴν ὀνομαστικὴν συνῄρηται γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ πλακόεισ, ὡσ τυρόεισ τυροῦσ, σησαμόεισ σησαμοῦσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 51 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. like cheese

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

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