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χρυσαυγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσαυγής χρυσαυγές

Structure: χρυσαυγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. gold-gleaming

Examples

  • θάλλει δ’ οὐρανίασ ὑπ’ ἄχνασ ὁ καλλίβοτρυσ κατ’ ἦμαρ ἀεὶ νάρκισσοσ, μεγάλαιν θεαῖν ἀρχαῖον στεφάνωμ’, ὅ τε χρυσαυγὴσ κρόκοσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 11)

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

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