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ὀργυιαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀργυιαῖος ὀργυιαῖη ὀργυιαῖον

Structure: ὀργυιαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)/rguia

Sense

  1. six feet long or large

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ὀργυιαῖος ὀργυιαίᾱ ὀργυιαῖον
Genitive ὀργυιαίου ὀργυιαίᾱς ὀργυιαίου
Dative ὀργυιαίῳ ὀργυιαίᾱͅ ὀργυιαίῳ
Accusative ὀργυιαῖον ὀργυιαίᾱν ὀργυιαῖον
Vocative ὀργυιαῖε ὀργυιαίᾱ ὀργυιαῖον
DualN/A/V ὀργυιαίω ὀργυιαίᾱ ὀργυιαίω
G/D ὀργυιαίοιν ὀργυιαίαιν ὀργυιαίοιν
PluralNominative ὀργυιαῖοι ὀργυιαῖαι ὀργυιαῖα
Genitive ὀργυιαίων ὀργυιαιῶν ὀργυιαίων
Dative ὀργυιαίοις ὀργυιαίαις ὀργυιαίοις
Accusative ὀργυιαίους ὀργυιαίᾱς ὀργυιαῖα
Vocative ὀργυιαῖοι ὀργυιαῖαι ὀργυιαῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὀργυιαῖος ὀργυιαίου ὀργυιαιότερος ὀργυιαιοτέρου ὀργυιαιότατος ὀργυιαιοτάτου
Adverb ὀργυιαίως ὀργυιαιότερον ὀργυιαιότατα

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

  • οὗτοι κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ηὔξανον πλάτοσ μὲν πηχυαῖον μῆκοσ δὲ ὀργυιαῖον· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 7 4:7)
  • καὶ χρυσώματα δὲ τῶν μεγάλων λεβήτων καὶ κρατήρων ὀργυιαίων· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 138:7)

Synonyms

  1. six feet long or large

Similar forms

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

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