Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἡμερόκοιτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμερόκοιτος

Structure: ἡμεροκοιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sleeping by day

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 κύνα καρχαρόδοντα κομεῖν, μὴ φείδεο σίτου, μή ποτέ σ’ ἡμερόκοιτοσ ἀνὴρ ἀπὸ χρήμαθ’ ἕληται. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 66:5)

Synonyms

  1. sleeping by day

Similar forms

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

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