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χρυσόνωτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρυσόνωτος χρυσόνωτον

Structure: χρυσονωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. with golden back or surface;, studded with gold

Examples

  • σὺ δ’, ὦ τὸν αἰπὺν οὐρανὸν διφρηλατῶν Ἥλιε, πατρῴαν τὴν ἐμὴν ὅταν χθόνα ἴδῃσ, ἐπισχὼν χρυσόνωτον ἡνίαν ἄγγειλον ἄτασ τὰσ ἐμὰσ μόρον τ’ ἐμὸν γέροντι πατρὶ τῇ τε δυστήνῳ τροφῷ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 3:11)

Similar forms

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

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