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ξυστός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξυστός ξυστοῦ

Structure: ξυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cu/w

Sense

  1. a covered colonnade

Declension

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

  • τῶν χερσαίων δ’ ὑμῖν ἥξει παρ’ ἐμοῦ ταυτί βοῦσ ἀγελαῖοσ, τράγοσ ὑλιβάτησ, αἲξ οὐρανία, κριὸσ τομίασ, κάπροσ ἐκτομίασ, ὗσ οὐ τομίασ δέλφαξ, δασύπουσ, ἔριφοι, τυρὸσ χλωρόσ, τυρὸσ ξηρόσ, τυρὸσ κοπτόσ, τυρὸσ ξυστόσ, τυρὸσ τμητόσ, τυρὸσ πηκτόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 66 2:4)
  • ὁ σύμπασ δὲ οὗτοσ περίβολοσ καλεῖται Ξυστόσ, ὅτι Ἡρακλεῖ τῷ Ἀμφιτρύωνοσ ἐσ ἄσκησιν ἐγίνετο, ὅσαι τῶν ἀκανθῶν ἐφύοντο ἐνταῦθα ἐπὶ ἑκάστῃ ἡμέρᾳ σφᾶσ ἀναξύειν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 2:4)

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

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