Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὅταν οὖν μεθημερινὸν ᾖ φῶσ περὶ τὸ τῆσ ὄψεωσ ῥεῦμα, τότε ἐκπῖπτον ὅμοιον πρὸσ ὅμοιον, συμπαγὲσ γενόμενον, ἓν σῶμα οἰκειωθὲν συνέστη κατὰ τὴν τῶν ὀμμάτων εὐθυωρίαν, ὅπῃπερ ἂν ἀντερείδῃ τὸ προσπῖπτον ἔνδοθεν πρὸσ ὃ τῶν ἔξω συνέπεσεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 175:4)
  • τὸ δέ γε μεθημερινόν, ὡσ ἐχόντων ἐν ἄκροισ ἄγκιστρα καὶ τῶν τριοδόντων, πᾶν ἀγκιστρευτικόν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 28:6)

Related

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

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