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νεκρικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεκρικός νεκρική νεκρικόν

Structure: νεκρικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nekro/s

Sense

  1. of or for the dead

Examples

  • σκελετῶδεσ τοῦτο καὶ νεκρικόν. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 75:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἱκανά μοι τὰ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἔργα, ἐν παλαίστραισ εἶναι κἀν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ κηρύττειν καὶ ῥήτορασ ἐκδιδάσκειν, ἀλλ̓ ἔτι καὶ νεκρικὰ συνδιαπράττειν μεμερισμένον. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:1)
  • τὰ χείλη δὲ πελιδνὰ καὶ νεκρικὰ καὶ τράχηλοσ λεπτὸσ καὶ ἐπίσημοι ἐν αὐτῷ αἱ φλέβεσ καὶ ῥὶσ μακρά. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. of or for the dead

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

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