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ἐγχώριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγχώριος ἐγχώριον

Structure: ἐγχωρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xw/ra

Sense

  1. in or of the country
  2. a dweller in, inhabitant
  3. according to the custom of the country

Examples

  • καὶ φυλάξεσθε πάντα τὰ νόμιμά μου καὶ πάντα τὰ προστάγματά μου, καὶ οὐ ποιήσετε ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν βδελυγμάτων τούτων, ὁ ἐγχώριοσ καὶ ὁ προσγενόμενοσ προσήλυτοσ ἐν ὑμῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 18:26)
  • ἔπηλυσ ἢ τὸ γένοσ ἐγχώριοσ; (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 349:2)
  • σπαρτῶν δ’ ἀπ’ ἀνδρῶν, ὧν Ἄρησ ἐφείσατο, ῥίζωμ’ ἀνεῖται, κάρτα δ’ ἔστ’ ἐγχώριοσ, Μελάνιπποσ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode21)
  • Δείναρχοσ Σωκράτουσ ἢ Σωστράτου, ὡσ μέν τινεσ ἐγχώριοσ, ὡσ δέ τισι δοκεῖ Κορίνθιοσ, ἀφικόμενοσ εἰσ Ἀθήνασ ἔτι νέοσ, καθ’ ὃν χρόνον Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐπῄει τὴν Ἀσίαν, κατοικήσασ αὐτόθι ἀκροατὴσ μὲν ἐγένετο Θεοφράστου τοῦ διαδεξαμένου τὴν Ἀριστοτέλουσ διατριβήν, ὡμίλησε δὲ καὶ Δημητρίῳ τῷ Φαληρεῖ· (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 11)
  • διόπερ ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ ἐπέγραψεν ὡσ οὐδεὶσ ἐγχώριοσ εἰσ αὐτὰ μεμόχθηκε. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 56 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. in or of the country

  2. a dweller in

  3. according to the custom of the country

Related

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

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