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θήρειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θήρειος θήρειον

Structure: θηρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qh/r

Sense

  1. of wild beasts, of animals, the centaur, game

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἅμα δὲ ταῦτα λέγοντα πολλὰ αὐτῷ παραφέρειν καὶ θήρεια καὶ τῶν ἡμέρων. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 7:3)
  • ἀκοντισταὶ δέ εἰσι καὶ τοξόται, θώρακασ ἔχοντεσ καὶ θυρεούσ, περίκρανα δὲ θήρεια παραπλησίωσ τοῖσ Ἴβηρσιν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 4 7:5)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τὸ λαθεῖν κρέα θήρεια προτιθέασι κατὰ μέρη· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 88:8)
  • φάρμακα δὲ θήρειά τε καὶ ἄλλα παντοῖα τηνάλλωσ ἐδίδοτο. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 15:11)

Synonyms

  1. of wild beasts

Related

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

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