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λόχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λόχιος λόχιᾱ λόχιον

Structure: λοχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to childbirth
  2. childbirth

Examples

  • τῶν δ’ ἄκρων τῆσ Φάρου τὸ μὲν ἑῷον μᾶλλόν ἐστι προσεχὲσ τῇ ἠπείρῳ καὶ τῇ κατ’ αὐτὴν ἄκρᾳ καλεῖται δ’ ἄκρα Λοχιάσ, καὶ ποιεῖ τὸν λιμένα ἀρτίστομον· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 12:8)
  • ἔστι δ’ ἐν τῷ μεγάλῳ λιμένι κατὰ μὲν τὸν εἴσπλουν ἐν δεξιᾷ ἡ νῆσοσ καὶ ὁ πύργοσ ὁ Φάροσ, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἑτέραν χεῖρα αἵ τε χοιράδεσ καὶ ἡ Λοχιὰσ ἄκρα ἔχουσα βασίλειον. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 18:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to childbirth

  2. childbirth

Related

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

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