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ξενόστασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξενόστασις ξενόστασιος

Structure: ξενοστασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a lodging for guests or strangers

Declension

Third 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

  • ὦ πότνιαι δεινῶπεσ, εὖτε νῦν ἕδρασ πρώτων ἐφ’ ὑμῶν τῆσδε γῆσ ἔκαμψ’ ἐγώ, Φοίβῳ τε κἀμοὶ μὴ γένησθ’ ἀγνώμονεσ, ὅσ μοι, τὰ πόλλ’ ἐκεῖν’ ὅτ’ ἐξέχρη κακά, ταύτην ἔλεξε παῦλαν ἐν χρόνῳ μακρῷ, ἐλθόντι χώραν τερμίαν, ὅπου θεῶν σεμνῶν ἕδραν λάβοιμι καὶ ξενόστασιν, ἐνταῦθα κάμψειν τὸν ταλαίπωρον βίον, κέρδη μὲν οἰκήσαντα τοῖσ δεδεγμένοισ, ἄτην δὲ τοῖσ πέμψασιν, οἵ μ’ ἀπήλασαν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 3:6)

Similar forms

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

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