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ἅλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἅλιος ἅλιη ἅλιον

Structure: ἁλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ls

Sense

  1. of the sea, sea

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὅδε μὲν κλύει οὐδέν, ἐγὼ δ’ ὁρῶ οὕνεκα θήραν τήνδ’ ἁλίωσ ἔχομεν τόξων, δίχα τοῦδε πλέοντεσ. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, hexameter1)

Synonyms

  1. of the sea

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

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