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πλησίος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλησίος πλησίᾱ πλησίον

Structure: πλησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/las

Sense

  1. near, close to, near, neighbouring, a neighbour
  2. near, nigh, hard by
  3. one's neighbour

Examples

  • Ἐν ᾧ δὲ αὐτὸσ ξὺν τοῖσ πεζοῖσ ἀμφὶ ταῦτα εἶχε, τοὺσ ἱππέασ ἐκπέμπει ἐσ τὰσ δύο τὰσ πλησίου πόλεισ προστάξασ παραφυλάττειν τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ τοὺσ ἔνδον, μήποτε τὴν ἅλωσιν αἰσθόμενοι τῶν πλησίον πόλεων καὶ ἅμα τὴν αὑτοῦ οὐ διὰ μακροῦ ἔφοδον οἱ δὲ ἐσ φυγὴν τραπέντεσ ἄποροι αὐτῷ διώκειν γένωνται. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 4, chapter 2 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. near

  2. one's neighbour

Related

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

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