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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

  • καὶ κατάσχεσισ αὐτῶν καὶ κατοικία αὐτῶν. Βαιθὴλ καὶ αἱ κῶμαι αὐτῆσ, κατ̓ ἀνατολὰσ Νοαράν, πρὸσ δυσμαῖσ Γαζὲρ καὶ αἱ κῶμαι αὐτῆσ. καὶ Συχὲμ καὶ αἱ κῶμαι αὐτῆσ ἕωσ Γαιὰν καὶ αἱ κῶμαι αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 7:28)
  • τί δὲ χρέοσ ἔπλετο νηῶν ἀρχεκάκων, ἵνα πόντον ὁμοῦ καὶ γαῖαν ὀρίνῃ βουκόλοσ; (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 12)
  • δέξό με καὶ πολέμων ἐπιλήθεο, δέχνυσο μορφὴν ἡμετέρην καὶ σκῆπτρα καὶ Ἀσίδα κάλλιπε γαῖαν. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 186)
  • εἴ τινά που Φρυγίησ ἐνὶ πείρασι γαῖαν ἀκούεισ, Ἴλιον, ἣν πύργωσε Ποσειδάων καὶ Ἀπόλλων· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1134)
  • ἢ οἱή προλιποῦσα δόμουσ καὶ πατρίδα γαῖαν ἤλυθεν ἐσ Θήβασ μετ’ ἀρήιον Ἀμφιτρύωνα Ἀλκμήνη, θυγάτηρ λαοσσόου Ἠλεκτρύωνοσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 2:1)

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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