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ἔξεδρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔξεδρος ἔξεδρον

Structure: ἐξεδρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e(/dra

Sense

  1. away from home
  2. out of, away from
  3. in an unlucky quarter

Examples

  • ὡσ οὐκ ἔξεδροσ, ἀλλ’ ἔντοποσ ἁνήρ, οὐ μολπὰν σύριγγοσ ἔχων, ὡσ ποιμὴν ἀγροβότασ, ἀλλ’ ἤ που πταίων ὑπ’ ἀνάγκασ βοᾷ τηλωπὸν ἰωάν, ἢ ναὸσ ἄξενον αὐγάζων ὁρ́μον· (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, antistrophe 33)

Synonyms

  1. away from home

  2. out of

Related

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

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