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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

  • καρδία ἡδρασμένη ἐπὶ διανοίασ συνέσεωσ ὡσ κόσμοσ ψαμμωτὸσ τοίχου ξυστοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 22:15)
  • προσκαλεσάμενοσ δὲ εἰσ τὸν ξυστὸν τὸ πλῆθοσ καὶ παραστησάμενοσ ἐν περιόπτῳ τὴν ἀδελφὴν Βερνίκην ἐπὶ τῆσ Ἀσαμωναίων οἰκίασ, αὕτη γὰρ ἦν ἐπάνω τοῦ ξυστοῦ πρὸσ τὸ πέραν τῆσ ἄνω πόλεωσ, καὶ γέφυρα τῷ ξυστῷ τὸ ἱερὸν συνῆπτεν, Ἀγρίππασ ἔλεξεν τοιάδε. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 451:1)
  • τὸν δὲ τοῦ ξυστοῦ καθύπερθεν, τὸν δὲ τρίτον κατὰ γωνίαν ἄλλην ἀντικρὺ τῆσ κάτω πόλεωσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 656:1)
  • Κατὰ δὲ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ἀγρίππασ ᾠκοδομήσατο μεγέθει διαφέρον οἴκημα ἐν τῷ βασιλείῳ ἐν Ιἑροσολύμοισ πλησίον τοῦ ξυστοῦ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 20 233:1)

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

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