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λοχεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λοχεῖος λοχεῖη λοχεῖον

Structure: λοχει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = lo/xios, loxei=a (sub. xwri/a)

Sense

  1. the place of childbirth

Examples

  • διὸ καὶ φακῶν αὐτῷ φυομένων ἀπαρχὰσ ἐπιφέρουσι, τὰσ δὲ λοχείουσ ἡμέρασ ἑορτάζειν μετὰ τὴν ἐαρινὴν ἰσημερίαν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 65 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. the place of childbirth

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

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