Hellas Alive Dictionary - εγχωριος

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ἐγχώριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγχώριος ἐγχώριον

Structure: ἐγχωρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xw/ra

Sense

in or of the country
a dweller in, inhabitant
according to the custom of the country

Declension

First/Second declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ἐγχώριος	ἐγχώριον
	Genitive	ἐγχωρίου	ἐγχωρίου
	Dative	ἐγχωρίῳ	ἐγχωρίῳ
	Accusative	ἐγχώριον	ἐγχώριον
	Vocative	ἐγχώριε	ἐγχώριον
Dual	N/A/V	ἐγχωρίω	ἐγχωρίω
Dual	G/D	ἐγχωρίοιν	ἐγχωρίοιν
Plural	Nominative	ἐγχώριοι	ἐγχώρια
	Genitive	ἐγχωρίων	ἐγχωρίων
	Dative	ἐγχωρίοις	ἐγχωρίοις
	Accusative	ἐγχωρίους	ἐγχώρια
	Vocative	ἐγχώριοι	ἐγχώρια

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἐγχώριος ἐγχωρίου	ἐγχωριότερος ἐγχωριοτέρου	ἐγχωριότατος ἐγχωριοτάτου
Adverb	ἐγχωρίως	ἐγχωριότερον	ἐγχωριότατα

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

ὅτι ὁ Θεόπομποσ ὁ Χῖοσ τὴν ἄμπελον ἱστορεῖ εὑρεθῆναι ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ παρὰ τὸν Ἀλφειόν καὶ ὅτι τῆσ Ἠλείασ τόποσ ἐστὶν ἀπέχων ὀκτὼ στάδια, ἐν ᾧ οἱ ἐγχώριοι κατακλείοντεσ τοῖσ Διονυσίοισ χαλκοῦσ λέβητασ τρεῖσ κενοὺσ παρόντων τῶν ἐπιδημούντων ἀποσφραγίζονται καὶ ὕστερον ἀνοίγοντεσ εὑρίσκουσιν οἴνου πεπληρωμένουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 611)
ἔθυον δὲ καὶ αὐτῷ πάντεσ οἱ ἐγχώριοι ἐπιλέγοντεσ Ἡρακλεῖ Θεμίσωνι, καὶ παρῆν αὐτὸσ ὁπότε τισ τῶν ἐνδόξων θύοι καὶ ἀνέκειτο στρωμνὴν καθ’ αὑτὸν ἔχων ἠμφιεσμένοσ λεοντῆν ἐφόρει δὲ καὶ τόξα Σκυθικὰ καὶ ῥόπαλον ἐκράτει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 35 1:1)
οἱ δ’ ἐγχώριοι ὡσ προδότην ὑποπτεύσαντεσ λιθόλευστον ἐποίησαν· (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 312)
οἱ δ’ ἐγχώριοι ὡσ προδότην ὑποπτεύσαντεσ λιθόλευστον ἐποίησαν ὡσ Καλλισθένησ ἐν τρίτῳ Θρᾳκικῶν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 312)
ἀλλ’, ὦ πατρῴα γῆ θεοί τ’ ἐγχώριοι, δέξασθέ μ’ εὐτυχοῦντα ταῖσδε ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ, σύ τ’, ὦ πατρῷον δῶμα· (Sophocles, episode 3:7)
καὶ συνεκάλεσεν αὐτοὺσ Ἰησοῦσ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖσ. διατί παρελογίσασθέ με λέγοντεσ, μακρὰν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἐσμεν σφόδρα, ὑμεῖσ δὲ ἐγχώριοί ἐστε τῶν κατοικούντων ἐν ἡμῖν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 9:27)

Synonyms

in or of the country
- ἀγρεῖος (of or in the country)
- ἄγροικος (of or in the country)
- ἐγχθόνιος (in or of the country)
- αὐτόχθονος (country and all)
- ἀναρπαστός (carried up the country)
- φιλάγραυλος (fond of the country)
- ληινόμος (dwelling in the country)
- γαιήοχος (protecting the country)
- χωρογράφος (describing countries)
- ἐπιχώριος (in or of the country, native)
- ἐνδάπιος (native of the country)
- χθόνιος (in or of the country, native)
- χωρογραφικός (of or for the description of countries)
a dweller in
- κάτοικος ( inhabiting)
- οἰκητός (inhabited)
according to the custom of the country
- ἐπιχώριος ( of or used in the country, custom, fashion)

πολλαχόθι (in many places)
πανοίκιος (with all one's house)
ἔκνομος (outlawed)
φιλοξενία (hospitality)
παραδόσιμος (handed down)
Σικᾱνός (a Sican or Sicanian)
παραποτάμιος (beside a river)
οἰωνοσκόπος ()
Λιβυρνός (one of the Liburni)
Λιβυρνοί (the Liburnians)
καταφθείρω (to destroy or spoil utterly)
κυριεύω (to be lord or master of)
ὑδρεῖον (a water-bucket)
πλοιάριον (a skiff)
κροκόδειλος (lizard)
μυθογράφος (a writer of legends)
Σηλυμβριανός (an inhabitant of Selymbria or Silivri)
συνεργία (joint working)
χόρτασμα (fodder)
ἀποικισμός (the settlement of a colony)
εὐημερία (fineness of the day)
Ὀπικοί (the Opici)
μεσόγαιος (inland)
σποράδην (scatteredly)
χωρίτης (a countryman)
Δίκτυννα (goddess of the chase)
Νῦσα ()
ἱερόδουλος (hierodule)
φλέγρα (Phlegra)
εὐκρασία (a good temperature)

Similar forms

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

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ἐγχώριος

Sense

Declension

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Synonyms

in or of the country

a dweller in

according to the custom of the country

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