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μεθημερινός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεθημερινός μεθημερινή μεθημερινόν

Structure: μεθημεριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h(me/ra

Sense

  1. happening by day, in open day

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

  • ὑποδήματα δὲ καὶ ληκύθουσ ἑφθὰσ ἐσθιόντων, αὐτὸσ ἐνδελεχῶσ πότοισ μεθημερινοῖσ καὶ κώμοισ χρώμενοσ καὶ πυρριχίζων καὶ γελωτοποιῶν πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ τὸν μὲν ἱερὸν τῆσ θεοῦ λύχνον ἀπεσβηκότα διὰ σπάνιν ἐλαίου περιεῖδε, τῇ δὲ ἱεροφάντιδι πυρῶν ἡμίεκτον προσαιτούσῃ πεπέρεωσ ἔπεμψε, τοὺσ δὲ βουλευτὰσ καὶ ἱερεῖσ ἱκετεύοντασ οἰκτεῖραι τὴν πόλιν καὶ διαλύσασθαι πρὸσ Σύλλαν τοξεύμασι βάλλων διεσκέδασεν. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 13 3:1)
  • ἢ ὡσ ἡ μήτηρ τοῖσ μεθημερινοῖσ γάμοισ ἐν τῷ κλεισίῳ τῷ πρὸσ τῷ καλαμίτῃ ἡρ́ῳ χρωμένη τὸν καλὸν ἀνδριάντα καὶ τριταγωνιστὴν ἄκρον ἐξέθρεψέ σε; (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 189:3)

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

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