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περίοικος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίοικος περίοικον

Structure: περιοικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. dwelling round, neighbours
  2. the free inhabitants

Examples

  • ἐν τῷ περιοίκῳ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου ἐχώνευσεν αὐτὰ ἐν τῷ πάχει τῆσ γῆσ ἀνὰ μέσον Σοκχὼθ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον Σειρά. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:33)
  • ὃσ τῆσ σῆσ γνώμησ ἐπεκράτησε, καὶ ἡγεμόνευσέ σοι τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀντὶ ἡμῶν, δυσμεναίνων ἡμῖν τε καὶ γένει παντὶ τῷ περιοίκῳ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 7:17)

Synonyms

  1. dwelling round

  2. the free inhabitants

Related

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

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