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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

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἐγχώριος ἐγχώριον
Genitive ἐγχωρίου ἐγχωρίου
Dative ἐγχωρίῳ ἐγχωρίῳ
Accusative ἐγχώριον ἐγχώριον
Vocative ἐγχώριε ἐγχώριον
DualN/A/V ἐγχωρίω ἐγχωρίω
G/D ἐγχωρίοιν ἐγχωρίοιν
PluralNominative 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

  • εἰ γάρ τοι καὶ χρῆμ’ ἐγχώριον ἄλλο γένηται, γείτονεσ ἄζωστοι ἔκιον, ζώσαντο δὲ πηοί. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 39:3)
  • Τῆσ γὰρ τῶν Ιὠταπάτων πολιορκίασ λαβούσησ τέλοσ γενόμενοσ παρὰ Ῥωμαίοισ μετὰ πάσησ ἐπιμελείασ ἐφυλασσόμην τὰ πολλὰ διὰ τιμῆσ ἄγοντόσ με Οὐεσπασιανοῦ, καὶ δὴ κελεύσαντοσ αὐτοῦ ἠγαγόμην τινὰ παρθένον ἐκ τῶν αἰχμαλωτίδων τῶν κατὰ Καισάρειαν ἁλουσῶν ἐγχώριον. (Flavius Josephus, 489:1)
  • τὸν δὲ Μάρκελλον ἀνακαλουμένων τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐπὶ τὸν ἐγχώριον καὶ σύνοικον πόλεμον, ἐπανερχόμενοσ τὰ πλεῖστα καὶ κάλλιστα τῶν ἐν Συρακούσαισ ἐκίνησεν ἀναθημάτων, ὡσ αὐτῷ τε πρὸσ τὸν θρίαμβον ὄψισ εἰή καὶ τῇ πόλει κόσμοσ. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 21 1:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ βασιλέωσ τούτου τελευτήσαντοσ ἀνεκτήσαντο τὴν ἀρχὴν Αἰγύπτιοι, καὶ κατέστησαν ἐγχώριον βασιλέα Μένδην, ὅν τινεσ Μάρρον προσονομάζουσιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 61 1:1)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ διακομίζον τὰ σώματα πλοῖον βᾶριν καλεῖσθαι, τὸ δ’ ἐπίβαθρον τῷ πορθμεῖ δίδοσθαι, καλουμένῳ κατὰ τὴν ἐγχώριον διάλεκτον χάρωνι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 96 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. in or of the country

  2. a dweller in

  3. according to the custom of the country

Related

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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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