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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

  • σιτοῦνται γοῦν ἀπὸ ἀκροδρύων, ἔκ τε μήλων ξηρῶν κοπέντων ποιοῦνται μάζασ, ἀπὸ δ’ ἀμυγδάλων φωχθέντων ἄρτουσ, ἐκ δὲ ῥιζῶν τινων οἶνον ἐκθλίβουσι, κρέασι δὲ χρῶνται θηρείοισ, ἥμερα δὲ οὐ τρέφουσι θρέμματα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 13 15:6)

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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