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Συριηγενής?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: Syriēgenēs

Principal Part: Συριηγενής Συριηγενές

Structure: Συριηγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Syrian-born

Examples

  • κατὰ γάρ μιν ἐρείπει πῦρ τε καὶ ὀξὺς Ἄρης, Συριηγενὲς ἁρ´μα διώκων πολλὰ δὲ κἆλλ ἀπολεῖ πυργώματα, κοὐ τὸ σὸν οἰο῀ν πολλοὺς δ ἀθανάτων ναοὺς μαλερῷ πυρὶ δώσει, οἵ που νῦν ἱδρῶτι ῥεούμενοι ἑστήκασι, δείματι παλλόμενοι: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 92 1:1)
  • κατὰ γάρ μιν ἐρείπει πῦρ τε καὶ ὀξὺς Ἄρης, Συριηγενὲς ἁρ´μα διώκων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 140 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. Syrian-born

Similar forms

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

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