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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

  • ἀλλ’ εἴπερ ἴσχει Ζεὺσ ἔτ’ ἐξ ἐμοῦ σέβασ, εὖ τοῦτ’ ἐπίστασ’, ὁρ́κιοσ δέ σοι λέγω· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 3:13)
  • ὁ δ’, ὡσ ἀνὴρ γενναῖοσ, οὐκ οἴκτου μέτα κατῄνεσεν τάδ’ ὁρ́κιοσ δράσειν ξένῳ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:10)
  • "Δαιμονίη, Ζεὺσ αὐτὸσ Ὀλύμπιοσ ὁρ́κιοσ ἔστω, Ἥρη τε Ζυγίη, Διὸσ εὐνέτισ, ἦ μὲν ἐμοῖσιν κουριδίην σε δόμοισιν ἐνιστήσεσθαι ἄκοιτιν, εὖτ’ ἂν ἐσ Ἑλλάδα γαῖαν ἱκώμεθα νοστήσαντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 2:25)
  • ἐπίκλησισ μὲν Ὅρκιόσ ἐστιν αὐτῷ, ἔχει δὲ ἐν ἑκατέρᾳ κεραυνὸν χειρί. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 24 14:2)

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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