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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

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

  • ἐπὶ τούτοισ τήν τε πόλιν εἱστίασε λαμπρῶσ καὶ τὰσ περιοικίδασ κώμασ, ἃσ οὐΐκουσ καλοῦσι. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 37 4:2)
  • ἀεὶ γάρ τινασ ἐκπέμποντεσ τοῦ δήμου πρὸσ τὰσ περιοικίδασ ποιοῦσιν εὐπόρουσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 6 87:1)
  • πέμψαντεσ οὖν πρέσβεισ εἰσ Ἦλιν εἶπον ὅτι τοῖσ τέλεσι τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων δίκαιον δοκοίη εἶναι ἀφιέναι αὐτοὺσ τὰσ περιοικίδασ πόλεισ αὐτονόμουσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 29:2)
  • ἐκ δὲ τούτου πάλιν αὖ τὰ τῶν Θηβαίων ἀνεζωπυρεῖτο, καὶ ἐστρατεύοντο εἰσ Θεσπιὰσ καὶ εἰσ τὰσ ἄλλασ τὰσ περιοικίδασ πόλεισ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 54:1)
  • ἅτε δὲ εἰσ τὰσ Θήβασ οὐκ ἐμβεβληκότων τῶν πολεμίων οὔτ’ ἐν ᾧ Κλεόμβροτοσ ἦγε τὴν στρατιὰν ἔτει οὔτ’ ἐν ᾧ Τιμόθεοσ περιέπλευσε, θρασέωσ δὴ ἐστρατεύοντο οἱ Θηβαῖοι ἐπὶ τὰσ περιοικίδασ πόλεισ καὶ πάλιν αὐτὰσ ἀνελάμβανον. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 76:2)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling or lying round about

  2. a dependent town

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

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