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ξένος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξένος ξένη ξένον

Structure: ξεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. foreign
  2. strange, unusual

Declension

First/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

  • καὶ ὁ συχνοὺσ τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἀποξενώσασ ἐπὶ ξένησ ἀπώλετο πρὸσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ ἀναχθεὶσ ὡσ διὰ τὴν συγγένειαν τευξόμενοσ σκέπησ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 5:9)
  • Ὁ μὲν οὖν ἀνδροφόνοσ καὶ βλάσφημοσ τὰ χείριστα παθών, ὡσ ἑτέρουσ διέθηκεν, ἐπὶ ξένησ ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσιν οἰκτίστῳ μόρῳ κατέστρεψε τὸν βίον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:28)
  • ἵνα ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἐπιθυμοῦντεσ τροφὴν διὰ τὴν εἰδέ χθειαν τῶν ἐπαπεσταλμένων καὶ τὴν ἀναγκαίαν ὄρεξιν ἀποστρέφωνται, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἐπ̓ ὀλίγον ἐνδεεῖσ γενόμενοι καὶ ξένησ μετάσχωσι γεύσεωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:3)
  • ἄνθρακασ δ’ ἐγὼ ὑμῖν παρέξω τῆσδε τῆσ ξένησ χάριν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode21)
  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἀφειδήσαντεσ, ὡσ ἐσείδομεν δόλια τεχνήματ’, εἰχόμεσθα τῆσ ξένησ πρυμνησίων τε, καὶ δι’ εὐθυντηρίασ οἰάκασ ἐξῃροῦμεν εὐπρύμνου νεώσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. foreign

  2. strange

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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