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χρυσοφαής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσοφαής χρυσοφαές

Structure: χρυσοφαη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fa/os

Sense

  1. with golden light

Examples

  • ἐμοὶ χρῆν συμφοράν, ἐμοὶ χρῆν πημονὰν γενέσθαι, Ἰδαίαν ὅτε πρῶτον ὕλαν Ἀλέξανδροσ εἰλατίναν ἐτάμεθ’, ἅλιον ἐπ’ οἶδμα ναυστολήσων Ἑλένασ ἐπὶ λέκτρα, τὰν καλλίσταν ὁ χρυσοφαὴσ Ἅλιοσ αὐγάζει. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, strophe1)

Synonyms

  1. with golden light

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

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