Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

νυκτερινός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτερινός νυκτερινή νυκτερινόν

Structure: νυκτεριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nu/c

Sense

  1. by night, nightly, by night

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ ταύτην ἔχων τὸν μὲν ἄλλον χρόνον ἐτήρει τὸ δεσμωτήριον, εἰσ δὲ τὴν βουλὴν ἐν τῷ νυκτερινῷ συλλόγῳ παριὼν ἐξῆγε τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 2 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. by night

Related

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

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