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ἀρχίδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀρχίδιον

Structure: ἀρχιδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: a)rxh/의 지소사 II.3

Sense

  1. a petty office, petty officer

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀρχίδιον ἀρχιδίω ἀρχίδια
Genitive ἀρχιδίου ἀρχιδίοιν ἀρχιδίων
Dative ἀρχιδίῳ ἀρχιδίοιν ἀρχιδίοις
Accusative ἀρχίδιον ἀρχιδίω ἀρχίδια
Vocative ἀρχίδιον ἀρχιδίω ἀρχίδια

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

  • κἂν λαχόντεσ ἀρχίδιον εἶθ’ ἁρπάσαι βούλησθέ τι, ὀξὺν ἱερακίσκον ἐσ τὰσ χεῖρασ ὑμῖν δώσομεν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, antepirrheme6)
  • ἐπειδὴ δ’ εἰσ τοὺσ δημότασ ἐνεγράφησ ὁπωσδήποτε, ἐῶ γὰρ τοῦτο, ἐπειδή γ’ ἐνεγράφησ, εὐθέωσ τὸ κάλλιστον ἐξελέξω τῶν ἔργων, γραμματεύειν καὶ ὑπηρετεῖν τοῖσ ἀρχιδίοισ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 373:1)

Synonyms

  1. a petty office

Similar forms

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

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