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ἐπίγειος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίγειος ἐπίγειον

Structure: ἐπιγει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/a, gh=

Sense

  1. terrestrial

Examples

  • "ἀφίησι δ’ εὐθὺσ ἀπὸ τῆσ ῥίζησ καυλοὺσ ἐπιγείουσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 832)
  • ἄλλουσ δ’ ἐκ τούτων ἐπιγείουσ γενέσθαι φασίν, ὑπάρξαντασ μὲν θνητούσ, διὰ δὲ σύνεσιν καὶ κοινὴν ἀνθρώπων εὐεργεσίαν τετευχότασ τῆσ ἀθανασίασ, ὧν ἐνίουσ καὶ βασιλεῖσ γεγονέναι κατὰ τὴν Αἴγυπτον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 13 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. terrestrial

Related

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

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