φυσίζοος

physizoos

producing

Appears 3 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

φυσίζοος, ον, as epith. of earth, prob. A. producing ζέα, αἶα Il. 3.243, Od. 11.301, Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.67; γῆ Il. 21.63; but reinterpreted as from ζωή (ζόη), producing life, φυσιζόου . . γένος Ζηνός prob. in A. Supp. 584 (lyr., φυσίζοον cod.M); φ. ὕδωρ AP 9.383.12; ἀήρ Tryph. 77, etc.
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