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νησιωτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νησιωτικός νησιωτική νησιωτικόν

Structure: νησιωτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from nhsiw/ths

Sense

  1. of or from an island, island, insular situation

Examples

  • καὶ ταύτην τὴν βίβλον ἐπιγράφοντεσ νησιωτικὴν ἀκολούθωσ τῇ γραφῇ περὶ πρώτησ τῆσ Σικελίασ ἐροῦμεν, ἐπεὶ καὶ κρατίστη τῶν νήσων ἐστὶ καὶ τῇ παλαιότητι τῶν μύθολογουμένων πεπρώτευκεν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 2 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or from 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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