Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀλεξητήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλεξητήριος ἀλεξητήριη ἀλεξητήριον

Structure: ἀλεξητηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)le/cw

Sense

  1. able to keep off, for defence
  2. a remedy: protection

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

  • ἐσ δεξιάν τε σὴν ἀλεξητήριον ξύλον καθίει δαίδαλον, ψευδῆ δόσιν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 1:14)
  • ἔνθεν αὐτοῖσ πρὸσ θεραπείαν παθῶν ῥίζαι τε ἀλεξητήριον καὶ λίθων ἰδιότητεσ ἀνερευνῶνται. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 177:2)
  • ’ ἔνιοι δὲ παρεγκλίνοντέσ τε τὴν λέξιν καὶ ψιλοῦντεσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ δεινοῖσ ἀλεξητήριὸν τινα παροιμίαν λέγουσιν ἰὴ παιών ’ καὶ οὐχὶ ’ ἱέ παῖ πολλοὶ δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῖσ τέλοσ ἔχουσιν ἐπιφθεγγόμενοι οἱ μὲν ἐν παροιμίᾳ φασὶν οὕτωσ τοῦτο δὴ τὸ λεγόμενον ἰὴ παιών,’ διὰ δὲ τὸ λίαν ἡμῖν εἶναι σύνηθεσ λανθάνον ὂν ἐν παροιμίᾳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce, chapter 62 1:9)

Synonyms

  1. able to keep off

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

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