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ἔγκυος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκυος ἔγκυον

Structure: ἐγκυ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ku/w

Sense

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

  • ἐπιπολαζούσησ δὲ τῆσ ῥᾳδιουργίασ καὶ πολλῶν ἀναιρουμένων τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον, ἐπειδὴ κολάζοντεσ τὰσ αἰτίασ τῶν κακῶν οὐκ ἠδυνήθησαν ἀποτρέψαι τὰσ ἄλλασ τῶν ἀδικημάτων, νόμον ἔθεσαν ὅπωσ συγκατακαίωνται τοῖσ τετελευτηκόσιν ἀνδράσιν αἱ γυναῖκεσ πλὴν τῶν ἐγκύων ἢ τῶν ἐχουσῶν τέκνα· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 33 3:1)

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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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