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νυμφ-ίος , ὁ,
A.bridegroom, παιδὸς ὀδύρεται ὀστέα καίων <*>φίου Il.23.223 ; “τὸν μὲν ἄκουρον ἐόντα βάλ᾽ . . νυμφίον ἐν μεγάρῳ μίαν οἴην παῖδα λιπόντα” Od.7.65 ; “ἁρμόζων κόρᾳ ν. ἄνδρα” Pi.P.9.118, etc. ; “ζῆτε νυμφίων βίον” Ar.Av.161 ; opp. νύμφη, Pl.Lg.783e : in pl., τοῖς νεωστὶ νυμφίοις to the bridal pair, E.Med.366, cf. A.Th.757 (lyr.) ; νυμφίοισι παρθένοις occurs in Ps.-E.IA741.
2. son-in-law, LXXJd. 15.6.
II. as Adj. νύμφιος, α, ον, bridal, “τράπεζα νυμφία” Pi.P.3.16 ; “λέκτρα” Epigr.Gr.373 (Aezani).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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