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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

  • τῶν δ’ αὖ Θηβαίων οἱ προεστῶτεσ ἐλογίζοντο ὡσ εἰ μὴ μαχοῖντο, ἀποστήσοιντο μὲν αἱ περιοικίδεσ αὐτῶν πόλεισ, αὐτοὶ δὲ πολιορκήσοιντο· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 7:2)
  • καὶ ἄλλαι δ’ εἰσί, Πάλαιρόσ τε καὶ Ἀλυζία καὶ Λευκὰσ καὶ Ἄργοσ τὸ Ἀμφιλοχικὸν καὶ Ἀμβρακία, ὧν αἱ πλεῖσται περιοικίδεσ γεγόνασιν ἢ καὶ πᾶσαι τῆσ Νικοπόλεωσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 2:2)
  • ἔνδοξον δ’ ἐποίησαν αὐτὴν αἱ περιοικίδεσ νῆσοι, καλούμεναι Κυκλάδεσ, κατὰ τιμὴν πέμπουσαι δημοσίᾳ θεωρούσ τε καὶ θυσίασ καὶ χοροὺσ παρθένων πανηγύρεισ τε ἐν αὐτῇ συνάγουσαι μεγάλασ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 5 4:9)

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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