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ξενών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξενών ξενῶνος

Structure: ξενων (Stem)

Etym.: ce/nos

Sense

  1. a guest-chamber

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ξενών ξενῶνε ξενῶνες
Genitive ξενῶνος ξενώνοιν ξενώνων
Dative ξενῶνι ξενώνοιν ξενῶσιν*
Accusative ξενῶνα ξενῶνε ξενῶνας
Vocative ξενών ξενῶνε ξενῶνες

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

  • ὥστε καὶ χθέσ, εὐθὺσ ἐνθένδε ἐπειδὴ παρὰ Κριτίαν πρὸσ τὸν ξενῶνα οὗ καὶ καταλύομεν ἀφικόμεθα, καὶ ἔτι πρότερον καθ’ ὁδὸν αὐτὰ ταῦτ’ ἐσκοποῦμεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 21:2)
  • καὶ ἐὰν μὲν ἐν Χαλκίδι βούληται οἰκεῖν, τὸν ξενῶνα τὸν πρὸσ τῷ κήπῳ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. a'. ARISTOTELHS 14:1)
  • τὸν δὲ παῖδα σταδιοδρόμον Ξένωνα Καλλιτέλουσ ἐν Λεπρέου τοῦ ἐν τῇ Τριφυλίᾳ Πυριλάμπησ Μεσσήνιοσ, Κλεινόμαχον δὲ Ἠλεῖον ὅστισ ὁ ποιήσασ ἐστὶν οὐκ ἴσμεν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 2:2)
  • οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Ξένωνα καὶ Θεόδοτον καταπλαγέντεσ τὴν ἔφοδον ἀνεχώρησαν εἰσ τὰσ πόλεισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 43 7:1)
  • Ἧκον δὲ καὶ παρὰ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν πρέσβεισ οἱ περὶ Ξένωνα καὶ Τηλεκλῆν ὑπὲρ τῶν κατῃτιαμένων, καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ Πολυβίου καὶ τοῦ Στρατίου χάριν· (Polybius, Histories, book 32, chapter 3 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a guest-chamber

Related

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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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