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ἐξαπίναιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξαπίναιος ἐξαπίναιᾱ ἐξαπίναιον

Structure: ἐξαπιναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = e)caifni/dios, Xen.

Sense

  1. sudden, unexpected.

Declension

First/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

  • ἐξαπιναίου δὲ τοῦ δεινοῦ καὶ παρὰ δόξαν τοῖσ Οὐολούσκοισ προσπεσόντοσ ὀλίγοι μέν τινεσ ὑποστάντεσ πρὸσ τῷ χάρακι μαχόμενοι κατεκόπησαν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 29 5:2)
  • μὴ γὰρ ἐξαπιναίου τῆσ συμβολῆσ γενομένησ οὐδ’ ἂν Ἀθηνίων εὑρ͂εν καιρὸν ἐπιβουλῆσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 530:3)
  • Ὅτι ὁ Φαρνάκησ, ἐξαπιναίου καὶ βαρείασ αὐτῷ τῆσ ἐφόδου γενομένησ, ἕτοιμοσ ἦν πρὸσ πᾶν τὸ προτεινόμενον· (Polybius, Histories, book 25, ii. res asiae 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. sudden

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

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