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ὀρεσκῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρεσκῷος ὀρεσκῷον

Structure: ὀρεσκῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kei=mai

Sense

  1. lying on mountains, mountainbred

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ὀρεσκῷος ὀρέσκῳον
Genitive ὀρεσκῴου ὀρεσκῴου
Dative ὀρεσκῴῳ ὀρεσκῴῳ
Accusative ὀρεσκῷον ὀρέσκῳον
Vocative ὀρεσκῷε ὀρέσκῳον
DualN/A/V ὀρεσκῴω ὀρεσκῴω
G/D ὀρεσκῴοιν ὀρεσκῴοιν
PluralNominative ὀρεσκῷοι ὀρέσκῳα
Genitive ὀρεσκῴων ὀρεσκῴων
Dative ὀρεσκῴοις ὀρεσκῴοις
Accusative ὀρεσκῴους ὀρέσκῳα
Vocative ὀρεσκῷοι ὀρέσκῳα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὀρεσκῷος ὀρεσκῴου ὀρεσκῳότερος ὀρεσκῳοτέρου ὀρεσκῳότατος ὀρεσκῳοτάτου
Adverb ὀρεσκῴως ὀρεσκῳότερον ὀρεσκῳότατα

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

  • τὸν μέν, ἐπὴν δὴ πρῶτον ἴδῃ φάοσ ἠελίοιο, Νύμφαι μιν θρέψουσιν ὀρεσκῷοι βαθύκολποι, αἳ τόδε ναιετάουσιν ὄροσ μέγα τε ζάθεόν τε· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 27:4)
  • ὀξύη ποτᾶτο ὀρεσκῷοσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , unknown186)
  • ὦρσαν δὲ νύμφαι, κοῦραι Διὸσ αἰγιόχοιο, αἶγασ ὀρεσκῴουσ, ἵνα δειπνήσειαν ἑταῖροι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 10:2)

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

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