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χρυσόκομος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσόκομος χρυσόκομον

Structure: χρυσοκομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = xrusoko/mhs, Anth.

Sense

  1. with golden plumage

Examples

  • τὰ μὲν αὐτοῦ χρυσόκομα τῶν πτερῶν τὰ δὲ ἐρυθρὰ ἐσ τὰ μάλιστα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 73 3:3)
  • "εἰκότωσ οὖν ὁ Εὐριπίδησ, εἶπε λοιβαὶ νεκύων φθιμένων ἀοιδαί, τὰσ χρυσοκόμα Ἀπόλλων οὐκ ἐνδέχεται. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 2112)
  • "ὧν ἕν ἐστι καὶ τὸ περὶ τῆσ γενέσεωσ δεινότατον θέων τὸν γέννατ’ εὐπέδιλλοσ Ἶρισ χρυσοκόμᾳ Ζεφύρῳ μίγεισα· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 20 1:2)

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

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