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ἐννύχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐννύχιος ἐννύχιᾱ ἐννύχιον

Structure: ἐννυχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nu/c

Sense

  1. in the night, by night, nightly, dwellers in the realms of Night, the dead

Examples

  • καὶ τὰ μὲν ἠλασάμεσθα Πύλον φησίΝηλήιον εἴσω, ἐννύχιοι προτὶ ἄστυ, ὡσ μεθ’ ἡμέραν μὲν τῆσ λεηλασίασ γενομένησ καὶ τῆσ τροπῆσ τῶν ἐκβοηθησάντων, ὅτε κτανεῖν λέγει τὸν Ἰτυμονέα, νύκτωρ δὲ τῆσ ἀφόδου γενομένησ ὥστ’ ἐννυχίουσ πρὸσ τῷ ἄστει γενέσθαι· (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 56:5)

Synonyms

  1. in the night

Related

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

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