Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νυκτερήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτερήσιος νυκτερήσιον

Structure: νυκτερησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nu/kteros

Sense

  1. nightly

Examples

  • ἐκ τοῦ σκότου τε τῶν τε νυκτερησίων φίλτρων μεγίστη γίγνεται βροτοῖσ χάρισ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, iambics 5:5)

Synonyms

  1. nightly

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

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