Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ξενικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξενικός ξενική ξενικόν

Structure: ξενικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for a stranger, of foreign kind, the taxes paid by aliens, the class of aliens, in which aliens sued or were sued
  2. hired for service, mercenary, a body of mercenaries
  3. hospitable, friendly, friendly relation
  4. foreign, alien, foreign, foreign, abounding in unusual words

Examples

  • ἐν δὲ τῇ νβ’ φησὶν ὡσ Ἀρχίδαμοσ ὁ Λάκων ἀποστὰσ τῆσ πατρίου διαίτησ συνηθίσθη ξενικῶσ καὶ μαλακῶσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 51 1:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ τούτων οἱ πολλοὶ ἐξηγούμενοι τὸν ποιητήν φασι τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν αὐτὸν νοῦν τε καὶ διάνοιαν πεποιηκέναι, καὶ ὁ τὰ ὀνόματα ποιῶν ἐοίκε τοιοῦτόν τι περὶ αὐτῆσ διανοεῖσθαι, ἔτι δὲ μειζόνωσ λέγων θεοῦ νόησιν ὡσπερεὶ λέγει ὅτι "ἁ θεονόα" ἐστὶν αὕτη, τῷ ἄλφα ξενικῶσ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἦτα χρησάμενοσ καὶ τὸ ἰῶτα καὶ τὸ σῖγμα ἀφελών. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 143:9)

Synonyms

  1. hired for service

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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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