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ἡμερήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμερήσιος ἡμερήσιη ἡμερήσιον

Structure: ἡμερησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h(me/ra

Sense

  1. for the day, by day, as of the day
  2. a day long, day's

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

  • οἱ δ’ εὔποροι αὐτῶν ὁπότε εἰσ ἀγρὸν παραβάλλοιεν,3 καίπερ ἐπὶ ζευγῶν πορευόμενοι τὴν ἡμερησίαν πορείαν ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραισ διήνυον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 17 1:2)
  • ἐπεί ποτ’ ἐγὼ ἤκουσα ἀνδρὸσ ἀξιοπίστου τῶν ἀναβεβηκότων παρὰ βασιλέα, ὃσ ἔφη παρελθεῖν χώραν πάνυ πολλὴν καὶ ἀγαθήν, ἐγγὺσ ἡμερησίαν ὁδόν, ἣν καλεῖν τοὺσ ἐπιχωρίουσ ζώνην τῆσ βασιλέωσ γυναικόσ· (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 122:2)
  • εἰσ ὃ ἀφικέσθαι προελθόντεσ ἡμερησίαν ὁδόν, καὶ ἰδεῖν αὐτόθι κατὰ μέσον τὸ φῶσ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τὰ ἄκρα αὐτοῦ τῶν δεσμῶν τεταμένα ‐ εἶναι γὰρ τοῦτο τὸ φῶσ σύνδεσμον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, οἱο͂ν τὰ ὑποζώματα τῶν τριήρων, οὕτω πᾶσαν συνέχον τὴν περιφοράν ‐ ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἄκρων τεταμένον ἀνάγκησ ἄτρακτον, δι’ οὗ πάσασ ἐπιστρέφεσθαι τὰσ περιφοράσ· (Plato, Republic, book 10 443:2)
  • μνᾶν τε ἀναλίσκειν ἡμερησίαν εἰσ τὴν τράπεζαν, ὡσ αὐτὸσ ἐν τῇ πρὸσ Λεόντιον ἐπιστολῇ γράφει καὶ ἐν τῇ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐν Μυτιλήνῃ φιλοσόφουσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. for the day

  2. a day long

Related

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

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