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Αἰγιναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Αἰγιναῖος

Structure: Αἰγιναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from Ai)/gina

Sense

  1. of Aegina

Examples

  • τὰ μέντοι ἀμφὶ τὸ στῆθοσ δασύτερά ἐστιν αὐτοῖσ ἢ ὡσ πρὸσ Αἰγιναίαν τέχνην εἰκάσαι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 19:3)
  • ἐμπόριον γὰρ γενέσθαι, διὰ τὴν λυπρότητα τῆσ χώρασ τῶν ἀνθρώπων θαλαττουργούντων ἐμπορικῶσ, ἀφ’ οὗ τὸν ῥῶπον Αἰγιναίαν ἐμπολὴν λέγεσθαι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 25:18)

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

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