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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

  • εἶδε δὲ Ἰωσὴφ αὐτοὺσ καὶ τὸν Βενιαμὶν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν ὁμομήτριον καὶ εἶπε τῷ ἐπὶ τῆσ οἰκίασ αὐτοῦ. εἰσάγαγε τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ εἰσ τὴν οἰκίαν καὶ σφάξον θύματα καὶ ἑτοίμασον. μετ̓ ἐμοῦ γὰρ φάγονται οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἄρτουσ τὴν μεσημβρίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 43:15)
  • ἀναβλέψασ δὲ τοῖσ ὀφθαλμοῖσ αὐτοῦ Ἰωσὴφ εἶδε Βενιαμὶν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν ὁμομήτριον καὶ εἶπεν. οὗτοσ ὁ ἀδελφὸσ ὑμῶν ὁ νεώτεροσ, ὃν εἴπατε πρόσ με ἀγαγεῖν̣ καὶ εἶπεν. ὁ Θεὸσ ἐλεήσαι σε τέκνον. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 43:28)
  • ἀδελφοὶ ἦσαν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, Διόδοτοσ καὶ Διογείτων ὁμοπάτριοι καὶ ὁμομήτριοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 251)
  • ὁμομητρίουσ, ὦ Διόνυσε, ἀδελφοὺσ εἶναι Ἔρωτα καὶ Ἑρμαφρόδιτον καὶ Πρίαπον ἀνομοιοτάτουσ ὄντασ τὰσ μορφὰσ καὶ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:2)
  • δύο γὰρ φὴσ ἔτεκεν ἡ Ἀλκμήνη κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ Ἡρακλέασ, τὸν μὲν ὑπ̓ Ἀμφιτρύωνι, τὸν δὲ παρὰ τοῦ Διόσ, ὥστε ἐλελήθειτε δίδυμοι ὄντεσ ὁμομήτριοι. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7:2)
  • 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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