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ὁμομήτριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμομήτριος ὁμομήτριᾱ ὁμομήτριον

Structure: ὁμομητρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. born of the same mother

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἦν δὲ καὶ Σερβιλία Κάτωνοσ ὁμομήτριοσ ἀδελφή. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 1 1:2)
  • θυγατέρασ δὲ πλείουσ ἔσχεν, ὧν Μνησιπτολέμαν μὲν ἐκ τῆσ ἐπιγαμηθείσησ γενομένην Ἀρχέπτολισ ὁ ἀδελφὸσ οὐκ ὢν ὁμομήτριοσ ἔγημεν, Ἰταλίαν δὲ Πανθοίδησ ὁ Χῖοσ, Σύβαριν δὲ Νικομήδησ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ· (Plutarch, , chapter 32 2:1)
  • τῇ δὲ μητρὶ τῇ ἐμῇ γίγνεται, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἐκ Πρωτομάχου, ᾧ αὐτὴν ὁ Τιμοκράτησ ὁμομήτριοσ καὶ ὁμοπάτριοσ ὢν ἀδελφὸσ ἔδωκεν, θυγάτηρ, εἶτ’ ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸσ τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἐγώ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 56:3)
  • οἱο͂ν καὶ ὁ ἐμὸσ ἀδελφὸσ <ὁ> ὁμοπάτριοσ, ὁμομήτριοσ δ’ οὔ, ὃσ ἀπεδήμει, καὶ εἰ δή τισ ἄλλοσ ἐβούλετ’ ἀμφισβητεῖν, οὐκ ἦν ἡμῖν κωλύειν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 12:2)
  • ἀδελφὸσ δ’ ἐστὶ τούτου ὁμομήτριοσ καὶ ὁμοπάτριοσ καὶ πρὸσ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ κακοῖσ δίδυμοσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 96:3)

Synonyms

  1. born of the same mother

Related

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

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