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γαμήλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: γαμήλιος

Structure: γαμηλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: game/w

Sense

  1. belonging to a wedding, bridal
  2. a wedding feast

Examples

  • ὦ στέρν’ ἀδελφῆσ, ὦ φίλον πρόσπτυγμ’ ἐμόν, τάδ’ ἀντὶ παίδων καὶ γαμηλίου λέχουσ ‐ προσφθέγματ’ ἀμφοῖν τοῖσ ταλαιπώροισ πάρα. (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:31)
  • ἐλθέτω ἐλθέτω μόροσ, πρὸ κοί‐ τασ γαμηλίου τυχών. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • πολλῆσ δὲ χώρασ τῆσδ’ ἔτ’ ἀκροθίνια θύη πρὸ παίδων καὶ γαμηλίου τέλουσ ἔχουσ’ ἐσ αἰεὶ τόνδ’ ἐπαινέσεισ λόγον. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 1 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to a wedding

  2. a wedding feast

Related

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

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