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γηγενής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γηγενής γηγενές

Structure: γηγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gh=, gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. earthborn
  2. born of Gaia or Tellus, portentous, furious

Examples

  • οἵ τε γηγενεῖσ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ πλούσιοσ καὶ πένησ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 48:3)
  • ὁ δὲ οὐκ οἶδεν ὅτι γηγενεῖσ παῤ αὐτῇ ὄλλυνται, καὶ ἐπὶ πέταυρον ᾅδου συναντᾷ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 9:18)
  • μὰ τὴν παρασπίζουσαν ἁρ́μασίν ποτε Νίκην Ἀθηνᾶν Ζηνὶ γηγενεῖσ ἔπι, οὐκ ἔστιν ὅστισ σοι πατὴρ θνητῶν, τέκνον, ἀλλ’ ὅσπερ ἐξέθρεψε, Λοξίασ ἄναξ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic11)
  • ταῦτ’ ἔμαθεσ τὰ δεξιὰ εἴσω παρελθὼν ἄρτι παρὰ τοὺσ γηγενεῖσ; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics45)
  • καὶ λῷστον μὲν οὖν τὸ Φλέγρασ πεδίον, ἵν’ οἱ θεοὶ τοὺσ γηγενεῖσ ἀλαζονευόμενοι καθυπερηκόντισαν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene24)

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

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