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νύκτιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: nyktios

Principal Part: νύκτιος νύκτια νύκτιον

Structure: νυκτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: νύξ

Sense

  1. nightly

Examples

  • χεῖμα δὲ θὴρ μείνας, θὴρ νύκτιος, οὔτε τιν ἀνδρῶν οὔτε βοτῶν βλάψας, ᾠχετ ἀπαυλόσυνος. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 221 1:2)

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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