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περιοικίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιοικίς περιοικίδος

Structure: περιοικιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of peri/oikos

Sense

  1. dwelling or lying round about, neighbouring
  2. the country round, the suburbs
  3. a dependent town

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative περιοικίς περιοικίδε περιοικίδες
Genitive περιοικίδος περιοικίδοιν περιοικίδων
Dative περιοικίδι περιοικίδοιν περιοικίσιν*
Accusative περιοικίδα περιοικίδε περιοικίδας
Vocative περιοικί περιοικίδε περιοικίδες

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

  • Τίτοσ μὲν γὰρ καὶ Φιλίππῳ τὸ ἀξίωμα τῆσ βασιλείασ ἐφύλαξε καὶ πρὸσ Αἰτωλοὺσ εὐγνωμόνησε, Φιλοποίμην δὲ τῆσ πατρίδοσ δι’ ὀργὴν ἀφείλετο τὴν περιοικίδα συντέλειαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Philopoemen and Titus, chapter 1 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling or lying round about

  2. a dependent town

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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