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ψαφαρόχρους

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψαφαρόχρους ψαφαρόχρουν

Structure: ψαφαροχρο (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. rough on the surface, squalid

Examples

  • βίον δ’ ἐπαιτῶν εἱρ͂π’ ἀγύρτησ τισ λάτρισ, ψαφαρόχρουν κάρα πολυπινέσ τ’ ἔχων· (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. rough on the surface

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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