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ζάπυρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζάπυρος ζάπυρον

Structure: ζαπυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pu=r

Sense

  1. very fiery

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • βρυχία δ’ ἠχὼ παραμυκᾶται βροντῆσ, ἕλικεσ δ’ ἐκλάμπουσι στεροπῆσ ζάπυροι, στρόμβοι δὲ κόνιν εἱλίσσουσι· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. very fiery

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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