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λύκειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λύκειος λύκειον

Structure: λυκει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to a wolf
  2. the Lycian god, the god of light, Lycean, a very wolf

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 σύ, Λύκει’ ἄναξ, Λύκειοσ γενοῦ στρατῷ δαί̈ῳ στόνων ἀντίτασ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 16)
  • εὐμενὴσ δ’ ὁ Λύκειοσ ἔ‐ στω πάσᾳ νεολαίᾳ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 33)
  • αὕτη δ’, Ὀρέστα, τοῦ λυκοκτόνου θεοῦ ἀγορὰ Λύκειοσ· (Sophocles, episode 1:3)
  • Λύκειον δὲ ἀπὸ μὲν Λύκου τοῦ Πανδίονοσ ἔχει τὸ ὄνομα, Ἀπόλλωνοσ δὲ ἱερὸν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ τε εὐθὺσ καὶ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ ἐνομίζετο, Λύκ<ε>ιόσ τε ὁ θεὸσ ἐνταῦθα ὠνομάσθη πρῶτον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to a wolf

Related

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

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