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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

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

  • δεξιτερῇ δ’ ἕλεν ἔγχοσ ἑκηβόλον, ὅ ῥ’ Ἀταλάντη Μαινάλῳ ἔν ποτέ οἱ ξεινήιον ἐγγυάλιξεν, πρόφρων ἀντομένη· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 14:12)
  • ἔνθ’ ἀπὸ Τυνδαρίδησ μὲν ἐύστιπτον θέτο φᾶροσ λεπταλέον, τό ῥά οἵ τισ ἑὸν ξεινήιον εἶναι ὤπασε Λημνιάδων· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 1:18)
  • ἡ δ’ ἔπορ’ Αἰσονίδῃ πολέσιν μετὰ καὶ τὸ φέρεσθαι γλήνεσιν εὐεργὲσ ξεινήιον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 8:13)
  • ἐπεὶ οὐ περιώσιον ἐγγυαλίξαι ἐνθάδε νῦν πάρ’ ἐμοὶ ξεινήιον ἀντομένοισιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 25:9)
  • ἐπεὶ Τρίτων ξεινήιον ἐγγυάλιξεν τήνδε τοι ἠπείροιο Λιβυστίδοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 28:14)

Synonyms

  1. a host's gift

Related

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

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