κροκόπεπλος

From κρόκος (krókos, “saffron”) +‎ πέπλος (péplos, “veil, robe”).

κροκόπεπλος • (krokópeplos) m or f (neuter κροκόπεπλον); second declension

1. having a saffron-colored veil or robe
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.1:

     Ἠὼς μὲν κροκόπεπλος ἐκίδνατο πᾶσαν ἐπʼ αἶαν

     Ēṑs mèn krokópeplos ekídnato pâsan ep aîan

     Now when Morning, saffron-robed, had begun to spread over all the earth

   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 270:

     Πεμφρηδώ τʼ ἐύπεπλον Ἐνυώ τε κροκόπεπλον

     Pemphrēdṓ t eúpeplon Enuṓ te krokópeplon

     Pemphredo well-clad, and saffron-robed Enyo

   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 355:

     Μῆτίς τʼ Εὐρυνόμη τε Τελεστώ τε κροκόπεπλος

     Mêtís t Eurunómē te Telestṓ te krokópeplos

     Metis, and Eurynome, and Telesto saffron-clad

   • Orphic Hymns, 71:

     Μηλινόην καλέω, νύμφην χθονίην, κροκόπεπλον

     Mēlinóēn kaléō, númphēn khthoníēn, krokópeplon

     I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth

• “κροκόπεπλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κροκόπεπλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κροκόπεπλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κροκόπεπλος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κροκόπεπλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press