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χρυσοειδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσοειδής χρυσοειδές

Structure: χρυσοειδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. like gold

Examples

  • αὐτὸν μὲν γὰρ τὸν Κρόνον ἐν ἄντρῳ βαθεῖ περιέχεσθαι πέτρασ χρυσοειδοῦσ καθεύδοντα, τὸν γὰρ ὕπνον αὐτῷ μεμηχανῆσθαι δεσμὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ Διόσ, ὄρνιθασ; (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 2618)

Synonyms

  1. like gold

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

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