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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

  • ὅσ ῥα παρὰ Κρονίωνι καθέζετο κύδεϊ γαίων· (Homer, Iliad, Book 1 41:9)
  • πὰρ δὲ Διὶ Κρονίωνι καθέζετο κύδεϊ γαίων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 93:6)
  • αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐν κορυφῇσι καθέζετο κύδεϊ γαίων εἰσορόων Τρώων τε πόλιν καὶ νῆασ Ἀχαιῶν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 8 6:5)
  • ὃ δὲ νόσφι λιασθεὶσ τῶν ἄλλων ἀπάνευθε καθέζετο κύδεϊ γαίων εἰσορόων Τρώων τε πόλιν καὶ νῆασ Ἀχαιῶν χαλκοῦ τε στεροπήν, ὀλλύντάσ τ’ ὀλλυμένουσ τε. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 7:9)
  • τίσ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ θεοῖσ τῶν γαιῶν, οἳ ἐξείλαντο τὰσ γᾶσ αὐτῶν ἐκ χειρόσ μου, ὅτι ἐξελεῖται Κύριοσ τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐκ χειρόσ μου̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 18:35)
  • καὶ ἡτοίμασαν τὸ θυσιαστήριον ἐπὶ τὴν ἑτοιμασίαν αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐν καταπλήξει ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ ἀπὸ τῶν λαῶν τῶν γαιῶν, καὶ ἀνέβη ἐπ̓ αὐτὸ ὁλοκαύτωσισ τῷ Κυρίῳ τὸ πρωί̈ καὶ εἰσ ἑσπέραν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 3:3)
  • ΚΑΙ ὡσ ἐτελέσθη ταῦτα, ἤγγισαν πρόσ με οἱ ἄρχοντεσ λέγοντεσ. οὐκ ἐχωρίσθη ὁ λαὸσ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖσ καὶ οἱ Λευῖται ἀπὸ λαῶν τῶν γαιῶν ἐν μακρύμμασιν αὐτῶν, τῷ Χανανί, ὁ Ἐθί, ὁ Φερεζί, ὁ Ἰεβουσί, ὁ Ἀμμωνί, ὁ Μωαβὶ καὶ ὁ Μοσερὶ καὶ ὁ Ἀμορί, (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 9:1)
  • ὅτι ἐλάβοσαν ἀπὸ θυγατέρων αὐτῶν ἑαυτοῖσ καὶ τοῖσ υἱοῖσ αὐτῶν, καὶ παρήχθη σπέρμα τὸ ἅγιον ἐν λαοῖσ τῶν γαιῶν, καὶ χεὶρ τῶν ἀρχόντων ἐν τῇ ἀσυνθεσίᾳ ταύτῃ ἐν ἀρχῇ (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 9:2)
  • ὅτι ἐπεστρέψαμεν διασκεδάσαι ἐντολάσ σου καὶ ἐπιγαμβρεῦσαι τοῖσ λαοῖσ τῶν γαιῶν. μὴ παροξυνθῇσ ἐν ἡμῖν ἕωσ συντελείασ, τοῦ μὴ εἶναι ἐγκατάλειμμα καὶ διασῳζόμενον. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 9:14)

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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