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ὅρκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅρκιος ὅρκιον

Structure: ὁρκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. belonging to an oath
  2. sworn, bound by oath, as if on oath
  3. that which is sworn by, invoked to witness an oath, sworn by

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ό̔ρκιος ό̔ρκιον
Genitive ὁρκίου ὁρκίου
Dative ὁρκίῳ ὁρκίῳ
Accusative ό̔ρκιον ό̔ρκιον
Vocative ό̔ρκιε ό̔ρκιον
DualN/A/V ὁρκίω ὁρκίω
G/D ὁρκίοιν ὁρκίοιν
PluralNominative ό̔ρκιοι ό̔ρκια
Genitive ὁρκίων ὁρκίων
Dative ὁρκίοις ὁρκίοις
Accusative ὁρκίους ό̔ρκια
Vocative ό̔ρκιοι ό̔ρκια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ό̔ρκιος ὁρκίου ὁρκιώτερος ὁρκιωτέρου ὁρκιώτατος ὁρκιωτάτου
Adverb ὁρκίως ὁρκιώτερον ὁρκιώτατα

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

  • τίν’ οὖν ἐπόμνυσ τοισίδ’ ὁρ́κιον θεῶν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 5:22)
  • ἃ σὺ δοκέεισ τέσσαρα, ταῦτα δέκα ἐστὶ καὶ τρίγωνον ἐντελὲσ καὶ ἡμέτερον ὁρ́κιον. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 4:6)
  • ἴστω σίδηροσ ὁρ́κιόν τέ μοι ξίφοσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 4:7)
  • εἰ δὲ σὺν πόνῳ τισ εὖ πράσσοι, μελιγάρυεσ ὕμνοι ὑστέρων ἀρχὰ λόγων τέλλεται καὶ πιστὸν ὁρ́κιον μεγάλαισ ἀρεταῖσ. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 11 1:2)
  • ἀνδροδάμαντ’ Ἐριφύλαν, ὁρ́κιον ὡσ ὅτε πιστόν, δόντεσ Οἰκλείδᾳ γυναῖκα, ξανθοκομᾶν Δαναῶν ἔσσαν μέγιστοι καί ποτε ἐσ<λὸν ἐσ> ἑπταπύλουσ Θήβασ ἄγαγον στρατὸν ἀνδρῶν αἰσιᾶν οὐ κατ’ ὀρνίχων ὁδόν· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 9 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to an oath

  2. sworn

  3. that which is sworn by

Related

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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