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νηγάτεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηγάτεος νηγάτεᾱ νηγάτεον

Structure: νηγατε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Perh. from ne/os, ge/gaa.

Sense

  1. new-made

Examples

  • ἔνθα σέ, ἠιέ Φοῖβε, θεαὶ λόον ὕδατι καλῷ ἁγνῶσ καὶ καθαρῶσ, σπάρξαν δ’ ἐν φάρεϊ λευκῷ, λεπτῷ, νηγατέῳ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , part 10:1)
  • Αἰσονίδησ δ’ ἄλλουσ μὲν ἐρήτυε, τῷ δ’ ἐπὶ φᾶροσ κάββαλε νηγάτεον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 4:4)
  • ἕζετο δ’ ὀρθωθείσ, μαλακὸν δ’ ἔνδυνε χιτῶνα καλὸν νηγάτεον, περὶ δὲ μέγα βάλλετο φᾶροσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 5:5)
  • κρηδέμνῳ δ’ ἐφύπερθε καλύψατο δῖα θεάων καλῷ νηγατέῳ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 14 17:15)

Synonyms

  1. new-made

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

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