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ὁμόγνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμόγνιος ὁμόγνιον

Structure: ὁμογνι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. for o(moge/nios

Sense

  1. of the same race, who protect a race or family

Examples

  • "εἰ τέσσαρα γένη τῆσ φιλίασ ἐχούσησ, ὥσπερ οἱ παλαιοὶ διώρισαν, τὸ φυσικὸν πρῶτον εἶτα τὸ συγγενικὸν ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ τρίτον τὸ ἑταιρικὸν καὶ τελευταῖον τὸ ἐρωτικόν, ἔχει τούτων ἕκαστον ἐπιστάτην θεὸν ἢ φίλιον ἢ ξένιον ἢ ὁμόγνιον καὶ πατρῷον μόνον δὲ τὸ ἐρωτικὸν ὥσπερ δυσιεροῦν ἀνόσιον καὶ ἀδέσποτον ἀφεῖται, καὶ ταῦτα πλείστησ ἐπιμελείασ καὶ κυβερνήσεωσ δεόμενον; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 16 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. of the same race

Related

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

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