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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

  • τοιαύτη μὲν οὖν τισ ἡ Θρασυμάχειοσ ἑρμηνεία, μέση τοῖν δυεῖν καὶ εὔκρατοσ καὶ εἰσ ἀμφοτέρουσ τοὺσ χαρακτῆρασ ἐπίκαιρον ἀφετήριον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 3 4:1)
  • Τληπόλεμόσ ὁ Μυρεὺσ Ἑρμᾶν ἀφετήριον ἑρ́μα [ἱροδρόμοισ θῆκεν παῖσ ὁ Πολυκρίτεω, δὶσ δέκ’ ἀπὸ σταδίων ἐναγώνιον ἀλλὰ πονεῖτε, μαλθακὸν ἐκ γονάτων ὄκνον ἀπωσάμενοι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3191)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν μεταπυργίων τούσ τε ὀξυβελεῖσ καὶ καταπέλτασ καὶ λιθοβόλα καὶ πᾶν ἀφετήριον ὄργανον τιθέασιν, πάντα πρὸσ τὰσ βολὰσ ἕτοιμα. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 101:1)
  • ἄριστον δ’ ἀφετήριον τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον ἐστὶν ἐπὶ τὰσ τρεῖσ τὰσ λεχθείσασ νήσουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 2 12:12)
  • εἶθ’ ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσιν ἐπὶ τὴν κώμην τὴν Κιμμερικήν, ἥτισ ἐστὶν ἀφετήριον τοῖσ τὴν λίμνην πλέουσιν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 2 5:10)
  • τοῦτο δὲ τὸ χωρίον ἀφετήριόν ἐστι τοῖσ ἐσ τὸν Πόντον πλέουσιν. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 12 2:2)

Related

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

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