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χοίρινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χοίρινος χοίρινη χοίρινον

Structure: χοιριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = xoi/reios

Sense

  1. of hog's skin

Examples

  • χρὴ δὲ οἶμαι μὴ οὕτωσ, ἀλλ̓ ὅμοια τὰ πάντα καὶ ὁμόχροα εἶναι καὶ συνᾷδον τῇ κεφαλῇ τὸ ἄλλο σῶμα, ὡσ μὴ χρυσοῦν μὲν τὸ κράνοσ εἰή, θώραξ δὲ πάνυ γελοῖοσ ἐκ ῥακῶν ποθεν ἢ ἐκ δερμάτων σαπρῶν συγκεκαττυμένοσ καὶ ἡ ἀσπὶσ οἰσυΐνη καὶ χοιρίνη περὶ ταῖσ κνήμαισ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 233)

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

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