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ζάχρυσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζάχρυσος ζάχρυσον

Structure: ζαχρυς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. rich in gold

Examples

  • ζαχρύσου δὲ δι’ ἐμπολᾶσ νόστον βάρβαρον ἦλθον, ἔνθα τᾶσ ἐλαφοκτόνου θεᾶσ ἀμφίπολον κόραν παῖδ’ Ἀγαμεμνονίαν λατρεύ‐ ω βωμούσ τ’ οὐ μηλοθύτασ, ζηλοῦσ’ ἄταν διὰ παν‐ τὸσ δυσδαίμον’· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. rich in gold

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

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