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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

  • ἡμερήσιοσ δὲ αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἡ μακροτάτη. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 7:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ σκόπελοι θαλάττιοι, οὐδὲ Χελιδονέαι καὶ Κυανέαι τὴν ὑμετέραν ἀρχὴν ὁρίζουσιν, οὐδ’ ἵππου δρόμοσ ἡμερήσιοσ ἐπὶ θάλατταν, οὐδ’ ἐπὶ τακτοῖσ ὁρ́οισ βασιλεύετε, οὐδ’ ἕτεροσ προαγορεύει μέχρι οὗ δεῖ κρατεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἡ μὲν θάλαττα ὥσπερ ζώνη τισ ἐν μέσῳ τῆσ οἰκουμένησ ὁμοίωσ καὶ τῆσ ὑμετέρασ ἡγεμονίασ τέταται. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:3)
  • ὁ δ’ Ἄραρ ἐκδέχεται καὶ ὁ Δοῦβισ ὁ εἰσ τοῦτον ἐμβάλλων, εἶτα πεζεύεται μέχρι τοῦ Σηκοάνα ποταμοῦ, κἀντεῦθεν ἤδη καταφέρεται εἰσ τὸν ὠκεανὸν καὶ τοὺσ Ληξοβίουσ καὶ Καλέτουσ, ἐκ δὲ τούτων εἰσ τὴν Βρεττανικὴν ἐλάττων ἢ ἡμερήσιοσ δρόμοσ ἐστίν. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 27:6)
  • ὅ τε πλοῦσ ἀπὸ μὲν τῆσ Κιλικίου Χρύσησ ἐπὶ τὸ ναύσταθμον ἑπτακοσίων που σταδίων ἐστὶν ἡμερήσιόσ πωσ, ὅσον φαίνεται πλεύσασ ὁ Ὀδυσσεύσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 108:11)

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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