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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

  • καί τῶν πρώτων οὐ διημάρτανεν ἐλπίδων τοσοῦτο πλῆθοσ ἀνθρώπων ὑπὸ χαρᾶσ καί πόθου πρὸσ τὴν ἀπάντησιν ἐξεχύθη, καὶ σχεδὸν ἡμερήσιον ἀνήλωσαν χρόνον αἱ περὶ τὰσ πύλασ καί τὴν εἴσοδον αὐτοῦ δεξιώσεισ καί φιλοφροσύναι. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 43 4:1)
  • ὦ χαῖρε λαμπτὴρ νυκτόσ, ἡμερήσιον φάοσ πιφαύσκων καὶ χορῶν κατάστασιν πολλῶν ἐν Ἄργει, τῆσδε συμφορᾶσ χάριν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 3:1)
  • ἦσαν δ’ ἐν τῇ Ῥεατίνῃ γῇ τῶν Ἀπεννίνων ὀρῶν οὐ μακρὰν, ὡσ Οὐάρρων Τερέντιοσ ἐν ἀρχαιολογίαισ γράφει, ἀπὸ τῆσ Ῥωμαίων πόλεωσ αἱ τὸ βραχύτατον ἀπέχουσαι ἡμερήσιον διάστημα ὁδοῦ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 14 1:3)
  • εὖροσ δὲ κατὰ μὲν τὸ στόμα καὶ τὸν μυχὸν ὑπάρχει περὶ ἑκκαίδεκα σταδίουσ, ἀπὸ δὲ Πανόρμου λιμένοσ πρὸσ τὴν ἀντιπέρασ ἤπειρον μακρᾶσ νεὼσ διωγμὸν ἡμερήσιον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 38 4:2)
  • τούτων δ’ ἡ μείζων μεγίστη πασῶν ἐστι μετὰ τὰσ ἑπτὰ νήσουσ, Σικελίαν, Σαρδώ, Κύπρον, Κρήτην, Εὔβοιαν, Κύρνον, Λέσβον, ἀπέχει δὲ τῆσ Ἰβηρίασ πλοῦν ἡμερήσιον· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 17 1:2)

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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