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νυκτέλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτέλιος νυκτέλιον

Structure: νυκτελι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nu/c

Sense

  1. nightly, his nightly festivals

Examples

  • "Διόνυσον δὲ καὶ Ζαγρέα καὶ Νυκτέλιον καὶ Ἰσοδαίτην αὐτὸν ὀνομάζουσι, καὶ φθοράσ τινασ καὶ ἀφανισμοὺσ οἱ τὰσ ἀποβιώσεισ καὶ παλιγγενεσίασ, οἰκεῖα ταῖσ εἰρημέναισ μεταβολαῖσ αἰνίγματα καὶ μυθεύματα περαίνουσι· (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 95)

Synonyms

  1. nightly

Related

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

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