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ἄλινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλινος ἄλινη ἄλινον

Structure: ἀλιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: li/non

Sense

  1. without a net, in which no net is used

Examples

  • παραπλεύσαντι δὲ τῆσ Ἀραβίασ εἰσ δισχιλίουσ καὶ τετρακοσίουσ σταδίουσ ἐν βαθεῖ κόλπῳ κεῖται πόλισ Γέρρα, Χαλδαίων φυγάδων ἐκ Βαβυλῶνοσ οἰκούντων γῆν ἁλμυρίδα καὶ ἐχόντων ἁλίνασ τὰσ οἰκίασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 3 6:1)

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

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