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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

  • "οὐδὲν ἦν ἄρα τυράννου δειλότερον, εἰ καὶ Νικοκλῆσ τηλικαύτην πόλιν ἔχων καὶ τοσαύτην δύναμιν ὀρρωδεῖ μειράκιον εἰσ ἡδονὰσ καὶ πότουσ μεθημερινοὺσ τὰ τῆσ φυγῆσ ἐφόδια καταχρώμενον. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 6 5:1)
  • ἓν δὲ τούτοισ ὃ πρόσεστι τοῖσ μὲν πολλοῖσ ἐπιεικῶσ κεχαρισμένον, τοῖσ δ’ ἐπιεικέσι πάντων ἀνιαρότατον, τοῦτ’ ἐκποδὼν ἀνελεῖν, λέγω τὰσ βλασφημίασ καὶ τοὺσ κώμουσ τουτουσὶ τοὺσ μεθημερίνουσ, καὶ νὴ Δία γε τοὺσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ παννυχίσι, καὶ μήτε ποιητὰσ εἶναι τούτων μήτε ἀγωνιστὰσ, μηδὲ παίζειν ἃ μὴ βέλτιον. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:8)

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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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