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ξενοδόκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξενοδόκος ξενοδόκη ξενοδόκον

Structure: ξενοδοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: de/xomai

Sense

  1. one who receives strangers, a host

Examples

  • εἶθ’ οἱ μὲν Ἀκραγαντῖνοι δυσφοροῦντεσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἐλαττώμασιν ἐν αἰτίαισ εἶχον τὸν Ξενόδοκον, ὡσ δἰ ἐκεῖνον δὶσ ἡττημένοι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 62 5:3)

Related

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

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