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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

  • "καὶ τοῦτ’ ἦν τὸ πολυτελέστατον εἴσ τε τὸν Ῥωσικὸν εὐανθέστατον ὄντα κέραμον πέντε μνᾶσ ἡμερησίασ ἀνήλισκεν ἡ Κλεοπάτρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1426)
  • καὶ σιωπῶ τείχη καθήκοντά ποτε ἐπὶ θάλατταν, ἡμερησίασ ὁδοῦ μῆκοσ τὰ σύμπαντα, καὶ πρὸσ τῇ θαλάττῃ κύκλουσ ἑτέρουσ ἀντιστρόφουσ τῶν περὶ τὴν πόλιν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 97:6)

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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