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Ποσειδώνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ποσειδώνιος Ποσειδώνιᾱ Ποσειδώνιον

Structure: Ποσειδωνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from Poseidw=n

Sense

  1. sacred to Poseidon
  2. the temple of Poseidon
  3. his festival

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

  • Ἀκτὴν μὲν γὰρ ἀπὸ Ἀκταίωνοσ φασίν, Ἀτθίδα δὲ καὶ Ἀττικὴν ἀπὸ Ἀτθίδοσ τῆσ Κραναοῦ, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ Κραναοὶ οἱ ἔνοικοι, Μοψοπίαν δὲ ἀπὸ Μοψόπου, Ιὠνίαν δὲ ἀπὸ Ιὤνοσ τοῦ Ξούθου, Ποσειδωνίαν δὲ καὶ Ἀθήνασ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπωνύμων θεῶν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 1 26:4)

Synonyms

  1. sacred to Poseidon

  2. the temple of Poseidon

  3. his festival

Related

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

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