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ἕλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕλειος ἕλειον

Structure: ἑλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e(/los

Sense

  1. of the marsh or meadow, of the meads
  2. growing or dwelling in the marsh

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

  • πλησίον δὲ τῆσ Ταρρακίνησ βαδίζοντι ἐπὶ τῆσ Ῥώμησ παραβέβληται τῇ ὁδῷ τῇ Ἀππίᾳ διῶρυξ ἐπὶ πολλοὺσ τόπουσ πληρουμένη τοῖσ ἑλείοισ τε καὶ τοῖσ ποταμίοισ ὕδασι· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 3 12:16)

Synonyms

  1. growing or dwelling in the marsh

Related

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

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