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Ἀσφάλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀσφάλειος Ἀσφάλειη Ἀσφάλειον

Structure: Ἀσφαλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)sfalh/s

Sense

  1. securer

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ ἀξίωσ ἐκείνων ὧν ἐναυμαχήσαμεν γηροβοσκούμεσθ’ ὑφ’ ὑμῶν, ἀλλὰ δεινὰ πάσχομεν, οἵτινεσ γέροντασ ἄνδρασ ἐμβαλόντεσ ἐσ γραφὰσ ὑπὸ νεανίσκων ἐᾶτε καταγελᾶσθαι ῥητόρων, οὐδὲν ὄντασ, ἀλλὰ κωφοὺσ καὶ παρεξηυλημένουσ, οἷσ Ποσειδῶν ἀσφάλειόσ ἐστιν ἡ βακτηρία· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Parabasis, epirrhema2)

Synonyms

  1. securer

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

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