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στεγνός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: stegnos

Principal Part: στεγνός στεγνή στεγνόν

Structure: στεγν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. from στεγανός

Sense

  1. waterproof
  2. a covered dwelling

Examples

  • στεγναὶ διατριβαὶ οἴκων αὐτῆς, σῖτα δὲ ὀκνηρὰ οὐκ ἔφαγε. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 29:44)
  • ταῦτα δὲ καὶ στεγνὰ πρὸς ὕδωρ καὶ πρὸς χιόνα καὶ πρὸς τὰ πνεύματα. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xviii.6)
  • δεῖ μέντοι τοῖς μέλλουσιν ἀνθρώποις ἕξειν ὅ τι εἰσφέρωσιν εἰς τὸ στεγνὸν τοῦ ἐργασομένου τὰς ἐν τῷ ὑπαίθρῳ ἐργασίας. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 7 21:1)
  • δεῖ δ αὖ, ἐπειδὰν ταῦτα εἰσενεχθῇ εἰς τὸ στεγνόν, καὶ τοῦ σώσοντος ταῦτα καὶ τοῦ ἐργασομένου δ ἃ τῶν στεγνῶν ἔργα δεόμενά ἐστι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 7 22:1)

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

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