Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἄξενος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄξενος ἄξενη ἄξενον

Structure: ἀξεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. inhospitable

Examples

  • ἄκραισ ἐπὶ ῥηγμῖσιν ἀξένου πόρου ‐ καὶ τίσ θαλάσσησ βουκόλοισ κοινωνία; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode16)
  • ἄκραισ ἐπὶ ῥηγμῖσιν ἀξένου πόρου. (Plutarch, De exilio, section 7 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. inhospitable

Related

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

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