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ξερός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξερός ξερή ξερόν

Structure: ξερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ionic for chro/s

Sense

  1. dry, to the dry land

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ξερός ξερᾱ́ ξερόν
Genitive ξεροῦ ξερᾶς ξεροῦ
Dative ξερῷ ξερᾷ ξερῷ
Accusative ξερόν ξερᾱ́ν ξερόν
Vocative ξερέ ξερᾱ́ ξερόν
DualN/A/V ξερώ ξερᾱ́ ξερώ
G/D ξεροῖν ξεραῖν ξεροῖν
PluralNominative ξεροί ξεραί ξερά
Genitive ξερῶν ξερῶν ξερῶν
Dative ξεροῖς ξεραῖς ξεροῖς
Accusative ξερούς ξερᾱ́ς ξερά
Vocative ξεροί ξεραί ξερά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ξερός ξεροῦ ξερότερος ξεροτεροῦ ξερότατος ξεροτατοῦ
Adverb ξερώς ξερότερον ξερότατα

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

  • ὡσ ἔχει ταυτί ῥόχθει γὰρ μέγα κῦμα ποτὶ ξερὸν ἠπείροιο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 163)
  • αὐτοὺσ δ’ ἐπὶ δούρασι πεπτηῶτασ νήσου Ἐνυαλίοιο ποτὶ ξερὸν ἔκβαλε κῦμα λυγαίῃ ὑπὸ νυκτί· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 6:3)
  • ῥόχθει γὰρ μέγα κῦμα ποτὶ ξερὸν ἠπείροιο. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 381 1:1)
  • Ἀκτῖτ’ ὦ καλαμευτά, ποτὶ ξερὸν ἔλθ’ ἀπὸ πέτρασ, καί με λάβ’ εὐάρχαν πρώιον ἐμπολέα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3041)
  • ῥόχθει γὰρ μέγα κῦμα ποτὶ ξερὸν ἠπείροιο δεινὸν ἐρευγόμενον, εἴλυτο δὲ πάνθ’ ἁλὸσ ἄχνῃ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 42:6)

Synonyms

  1. dry

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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