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κήτειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κήτειος κήτειᾱ κήτειον

Structure: κητει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kh=tos

Sense

  1. of sea monsters

Examples

  • ἀχρεῖοσ γοῦν γίνεται καὶ σφαδᾴζων ἐπειδὰν φάγῃ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ αἰγιαλοὺσ ἐκκυμανθεὶσ βορὰ γίνεται αἰθυίαισ τε καὶ λάροισ, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ταῖσ κητείαισ παρεδρευόντων ἀνδρῶν παρανομεῖται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 18 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. of sea monsters

Related

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

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