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μοιχίδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μοιχίδιος μοιχίδιᾱ μοιχίδιον

Structure: μοιχιδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. born in adultery

Examples

  • ἀποκτεῖναι δὲ οὐδένα κω λέγουσι τὸν ἑωυτοῦ πατέρα οὐδὲ μητέρα, ἀλλὰ ὁκόσα ἤδη τοιαῦτα ἐγένετο, πᾶσαν ἀνάγκην φασὶ ἀναζητεόμενα ταῦτα ἀνευρεθῆναι ἤτοι ὑποβολιμαῖα ἐόντα ἢ μοιχίδια· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 137 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. born in adultery

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

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