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γάιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γάιος γάιη γάιον

Structure: γαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. on land

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

  • υσ ἵνα κ[ ]γαίασ Ἰσθμί[ασ ]ν, εὐβούλου ν̣ (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 1:4)
  • οὔ νιν κορυφαὶ μεγάλασ ἴσχουσι γαίασ, οὐδ’ ἁλὸσ ἀκαμάτασ δυσπαίπαλα κύματα· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 2:2)
  • ἐγὼ πρὸ γαίασ τόνδε κίνδυνον θέλω ῥίψασ κατόπτησ ναῦσ ἐπ’ Ἀργείων μολεῖν, καὶ πάντ’ Ἀχαιῶν ἐκμαθὼν βουλεύματα ἥξω· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic15)
  • οὐκ εἶσι γαίασ ἐσ μελάγχιμον πέδον· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 4:9)
  • ἃ φθιμένουσ παῖδασ ἐμοὺσ οὔτε δόμοισ προθέμαν οὔτε τάφων χώματα γαίασ ἐσορῶ. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 13)

Synonyms

  1. on land

Related

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

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