φοινίκεος
phoinikeos
purple-red, crimson
Appears 38 times across Aristotle's works.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
φοινίκεος [ῑ], έα, εον: (φοῖνιξ Β 1):—A. purple-red, crimson, and (generally) red, νέφος 32.2; ῥόδα I. 4(3).18(36); προμαχεῶνες 1.98; εἷμα 2.132, cf. 7.76, 9.22; ὄνυχες Int. 29; σύκινα φ., a variety of fig, PCair.Zen. 33.12 intr. (iii B.C.); metaph., blushing, αἰδώς Fr.i B 34 Diehl2; contr. φοινῑκοῦς, ῆ, οῦν, Mul. 1.95, An. 1.2.16, Cyr. 7.1.2, HA 592b24, 3.153; σκηναί 6.41.7; χιτών, as signal for battle, Pomp. 68, Brut. 40; γράμματα 40.18; τὸ φ. dark red, Metaph. 1057a25, al.; less bright than τὸ ἁλουργές, Col. 792a14 (φοινικά must be corrected to φοινικᾶ in 2.176, cf. s.v. φοινικᾶ (but φοινικιᾶ Id. s.v. ἁπλᾶ)). II. prob. f.l. for Φοινικικός, HP 3.12.3.
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