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λεχαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεχαῖος λεχαῖη λεχαῖον

Structure: λεχαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/xos

Sense

  1. in bed, nestlings

Examples

  • γείτονεσ δὲ καρδίασ μέριμναι ζωπυροῦσι τάρβοσ τὸν ἀμφιτειχῆ λεών, δράκοντασ ὥσ τισ τέκνων ὑπερδέδοικεν λεχαίων δυσευνάτορασ πάντρομοσ πελειάσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. in bed

Related

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

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