Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀφετήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφετήριος ἀφετήριη ἀφετήριον

Structure: ἀφετηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)fi/hmi

Sense

  1. for letting go or starting for a race, whose statues stood at the starting place

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

  • ἠρέμει δὲ οὐδὲ τῶν ἀφετηρίων ὀργάνων τὸ πλῆθοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 261:2)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν τούσ τε καταπέλτασ καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν ἀφετηρίων, ὡσ ἐξικνοῖτο τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ τείχουσ κωλύειν πειρωμένων, ἔγγιον προσαγαγόντεσ ἔβαλλον· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 270:1)
  • τῶν χωμάτων ἐπέστησεν, συνεπιβήσασ αὐτοῖσ ἀκοντιστάσ τε καὶ τοξότασ καὶ τῶν ἀφετηρίων ὀργάνων τὰ κουφότερα, πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ ῥωμαλεωτάτουσ σφενδονήτασ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 347:1)

Related

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

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