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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

  • ‐ ἀλλὰ ξενῶνασ οἶγε καὶ ῥᾶνον δόμουσ στρώννυ τε κοίτασ καὶ πυρὸσ φλέξον μένοσ κρατῆρά τ’ αἴρου καὶ τὸν ἥδιστον κέρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 29 2:3)
  • "τῶν δὲ ἡρωικῶν οἴκων τοὺσ μείζονασ Ὅμηροσ μέγαρα καλεῖ καὶ δώματα καὶ κλισίασ, οἱ δὲ νῦν ξενῶνασ καὶ ἀνδρῶνασ ὀνομάζουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:22)
  • οὔτε γὰρ πολυτελείασ οὔτε κατασκευῆσ τινοσ ἔλειπεν ὑπερβολήν, ἀλλὰ τετείχιστο μὲν ἅπασα τριάκοντα πήχεισ τὸ ὕψοσ κύκλῳ κατ’ ἴσον διάστημα, κεκοσμημένοισ δὲ πύργοισ διείληπτο ἀνδρῶσί τε μεγίστοισ καὶ εἰσ ξενῶνασ ἑκατοντακλίνουσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 201:1)
  • ἦν δὲ τῶν Ἀκραγαντίνων σχεδὸν πλουσιώτατοσ κατ’ ἐκεῖνον τὸν χρόνον Τελλίασ, ὃσ κατὰ τὴν οἰκίαν ξενῶνασ ἔχων πλείουσ πρὸσ ταῖσ πύλαισ ἔταττεν οἰκέτασ, οἷσ παρηγγελμένον ἦν ἅπαντασ τοὺσ ξένουσ καλεῖν ἐπὶ ξενίᾳ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 83 2:1)

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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