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ξεινήιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξεινήιον ξεινήιου

Structure: ξεινηι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: cei=nos

Sense

  1. a host's gift

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ξεινήιον ξεινηίω ξεινήια
Genitive ξεινηίου ξεινηίοιν ξεινηίων
Dative ξεινηίῳ ξεινηίοιν ξεινηίοις
Accusative ξεινήιον ξεινηίω ξεινήια
Vocative ξεινήιον ξεινηίω ξεινήια

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

  • μετέπειτα δ’ ἐυτροχάλοισιν ἀμάξαισ ἀκτὴν εἰσαπέβαν, ξεινήια πολλὰ φέρουσαι, μῦθον ὅτ’ ἤδη πάντα διηνεκέωσ ἀγόρευσεν, τόν ῥα καλεσσαμένη διεπέφραδεν Ὑψιπύλεια· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 15:8)
  • ξεινήια δ’ ἄσπετα Θυνοὶ πᾶν ἦμαρ Φινῆι χαριζόμενοι προϊάλλον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 9:3)
  • " Ὧσ τώγε ξυμβάντε μέγαν δόλον ἠρτύνοντο Ἀψύρτῳ, καὶ πολλὰ πόρον ξεινήια δῶρα, οἷσ μέτα καὶ πέπλον δόσαν ἱερὸν Ὑψιπυλείησ πορφύρεον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 8:9)
  • πολλὰ δ’ ἰοῦσιν Ἰλλκίνοοσ Μινύαισ ξεινήια, πολλὰ δ’ ὄπασσεν Ἰλρήτη· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 19:26)
  • εἰσ τὴν εἰκόνα Φιλίππου ἄρχοντοσ Σμύρνῃ ἐκ Φιλαδελφείησ ξεινήια ταῦτα Φιλίππῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 341)

Synonyms

  1. a host's gift

Related

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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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