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παννύχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παννύχιος παννύχιᾱ παννύχιον

Structure: παννυχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. all night long, a night-festival, vigil
  2. a night-watch, vigil

Examples

  • πάλιν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ ἐπιστάντι αὐτῷ κοιμωμένῳ καὶ εἰπόντι "οὐ χρὴ παννύχιον εὕδειν βουληφόρον ἄνδρα" ἔνυπνοσ ἔτι ὢν ἀπήντησεν "ᾧ λαοί τ’ ἐπιτετράφαται καὶ τόσσα μέμηλεν". (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 92:1)
  • οὐ χρὴ παννύχιον εὕδειν βουληφόρον ἄνδρα ᾧ λαοί τ’ ἐπιτετράφαται καὶ τόσσα μέμηλε· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 3:7)
  • οὐ χρὴ παννύχιον εὕδειν βουληφόρον ἄνδρα, ᾧ λαοί τ’ ἐπιτετράφαται καὶ τόσσα μέμηλε· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 7:8)
  • τὰ δὲ λύχνα ἐστὶ ἐμβάφια ἔμπλεα ἁλὸσ καὶ ἐλαίου, ἐπιπολῆσ δὲ ἔπεστι αὐτὸ τὸ ἐλλύχνιον, καὶ τοῦτο καίεται παννύχιον, καὶ τῇ ὁρτῇ οὔνομα κέεται λυχνοκαί̈η. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 62 2:2)
  • χωρεῖ οὖν εἰσ τὸ τέμενοσ, καὶ δειπνήσασα, ὡσ ὕπνου καιρὸσ ἦν, κλεισθεισῶν τῶν θυρῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἱερέωσ ἔνδον ἐν τῷ νεῷ καὶ τὰ λύχνα ἐκποδὼν ἦν καὶ ὁ Μοῦνδοσ, προεκέκρυπτο γὰρ τῇδε, οὐχ ἡμάρτανεν ὁμιλιῶν τῶν πρὸσ αὐτήν, παννύχιόν τε αὐτῷ διηκονήσατο ὑπειληφυῖα θεὸν εἶναι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 92:1)

Synonyms

  1. a night-watch

Related

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

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