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τέγεος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέγεος τέγεον

Structure: τεγε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/gos

Sense

  1. at or near the roof

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

  • αὐτὰρ ἐν αὐτῷ πεντήκοντ’ ἔνεσαν θάλαμοι ξεστοῖο λίθοιο πλησίον ἀλλήλων δεδμημένοι, ἔνθα δὲ παῖδεσ κοιμῶντο Πριάμοιο παρὰ μνηστῇσ ἀλόχοισι, κουράων δ’ ἑτέρωθεν ἐναντίοι ἔνδοθεν αὐλῆσ δώδεκ’ ἔσαν τέγεοι θάλαμοι ξεστοῖο λίθοιο πλησίον ἀλλήλων δεδμημένοι, ἔνθα δὲ γαμβροὶ κοιμῶντο Πριάμοιο παρ’ αἰδοίῃσ ἀλόχοισιν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 6 25:2)

Synonyms

  1. at or near the roof

Related

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

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