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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

  • ἐσ δὲ νέονται οὐρανόν, ὦ Ῥώμασ Γαῖε πάτρασ ἔρυμα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 59 1:1)
  • "Γάιε, βραδύνεισ; (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 1 6:1)
  • "ὦ Γάιε, προπέμπω δήμαρχον, ὡσ πρότερον, καὶ νομοθέτην, οὐδ’ ἐπὶ πόλεμον ἔνδοξον, ἵνα μοι καὶ παθών τι τῶν κοινῶν ἀπολίπῃσ τιμώμενον γοῦν πένθοσ, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ Τιβερίου φονεῦσιν ὑποβάλλεισ ἑαυτόν, ἄνοπλον μὲν καλῶσ, ἵνα πάθῃσ τι μᾶλλον ἢ δράσῃσ, πρὸσ οὐδὲν δὲ τοῖσ κοινοῖσ ὄφελοσ ἀπολεῖ. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 15 2:1)
  • "ὦ Γάϊε Κρασσίνιε, καὶ πῶσ τι θάρσουσ ἔχομεν; (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 44 5:1)
  • ἡδὺ παρειάων πρῶτον θέροσ ἤματι τούτῳ κείρεο, καὶ γενύων ἠιθέουσ ἕλικασ, Γάιε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 191)
  • εἰ μὲν ἐπ’ ἀττελάβουσ ἄγεται στρατόσ, ἢ κυνομυίασ, ἢ μύασ, ἢ ψυλλῶν ἱππικὸν ἢ βατράχων, Γάιε, καὶ σὺ φοβοῦ μὴ καὶ σέ τισ ἐγκαταλέξῃ, ὡσ ἂν τῆσ τούτων ἄξιον ὄντα μάχησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2651)

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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