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Λυκαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λυκαῖος Λυκαῖη Λυκαῖον

Structure: Λυκαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Lycaean, Arcadian
  2. his temple
  3. Mount Lycaeus
  4. the festival of Lycaean Zeus, Lupercalia

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative Λυκαῖος Λυκαίᾱ Λυκαῖον
Genitive Λυκαίου Λυκαίᾱς Λυκαίου
Dative Λυκαίῳ Λυκαίᾱͅ Λυκαίῳ
Accusative Λυκαῖον Λυκαίᾱν Λυκαῖον
Vocative Λυκαῖε Λυκαίᾱ Λυκαῖον
DualN/A/V Λυκαίω Λυκαίᾱ Λυκαίω
G/D Λυκαίοιν Λυκαίαιν Λυκαίοιν
PluralNominative Λυκαῖοι Λυκαῖαι Λυκαῖα
Genitive Λυκαίων Λυκαιῶν Λυκαίων
Dative Λυκαίοις Λυκαίαις Λυκαίοις
Accusative Λυκαίους Λυκαίᾱς Λυκαῖα
Vocative Λυκαῖοι Λυκαῖαι Λυκαῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective Λυκαῖος Λυκαίου Λυκαιώτερος Λυκαιωτέρου Λυκαιώτατος Λυκαιωτάτου
Adverb Λυκαίως Λυκαιώτερον Λυκαιώτατα

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

  • ἦν μὲν γὰρ ἡ τῶν Λυκαίων ἑορτὴ Ῥωμαίοισ, ἣν Λουπερκάλια καλοῦσι, Καῖσαρ δὲ κεκοσμημένοσ ἐσθῆτι θριαμβικῇ καὶ καθήμενοσ ὑπὲρ βήματοσ ἐν ἀγορᾷ τοὺσ διαθέοντασ ἐθεᾶτο· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 12 1:2)
  • τὸ δὲ ἀρχαῖον τῶν Λυκαίων ἦγον τὸν ἀγῶνα ἐνταῦθα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 38 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. his temple

Related

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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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