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νησαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νησαῖος

Structure: νησαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of an island, insular

Examples

  • οἱ τῶνδε δ’ αὖ παῖδεσ γενόμενοι σὺν χρόνῳ πεπρωμένῳ Κυκλάδασ ἐποικήσουσι νησαίασ πόλεισ χέρσουσ τε παράλουσ, ὃ σθένοσ τἠμῇ χθονὶ δίδωσιν· (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic 3:6)
  • διαρρεῖται δὲ καὶ ποταμοῖσ ἡ Ὑρκανία τῷ τε Ὤχῳ καὶ Ὤξῳ μέχρι τῆσ εἰσ θάλατταν ἐκβολῆσ, ὧν ὁ Ὦχοσ καὶ διὰ τῆσ Νησαίασ ῥεῖ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 7 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. of an island

Related

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

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