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

  • ὃ δὴ καὶ τοῦ περὶ τὰ νυκτίνομα τῶν ζῴων παθήματοσ αἴτιόν ἐστιν ἡ γὰρ ὄψισ αὐτῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ μεθημερινοῦ φωτὸσ ἀδρανὴσ οὖσα κατακλύζεται καὶ κρατεῖται, μὴ δυναμένη πρὸσ πολὺ καὶ ἰσχυρὸν ἀπ’ ἀσθενοῦσ καὶ ὀλίγησ ἀρχῆσ κεράννυσθαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 22:1)

Related

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

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