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ὕειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕειος ὕειᾱ ὕειον

Structure: ὑει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(=s

Sense

  1. of or belonging to swine, pig's

Examples

  • καὶ οἰκοδομῆσαι βωμοὺσ καὶ τεμένη καὶ εἰδωλεῖα καὶ θύειν ὕεια καὶ κτήνη κοινὰ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 1:47)
  • ἐν τοῖσ μνήμασι καὶ ἐν τοῖσ σπηλαίοισ κοιμῶνται δἰ ἐνύπνια, οἱ ἔσθοντεσ κρέα ὕεια καὶ ζωμὸν θυσιῶν, μεμολυμμένα πάντα τὰ σκεύη αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 65:4)
  • παρεσκεύαστο δὲ πολλὰ καὶ ποικίλα, δίχηλα ὑειά καὶ σχελίδεσ καὶ ἠτριαία καὶ τοκάδοσ ὑὸσ τὸ ἐμβρυοδόχον ἔντερον καὶ λοβὸσ ἐκ ταγήνου καὶ μυττωτὸσ καὶ ἀβυρτάκη καὶ τοιαῦταί τινεσ καρυκεῖαι καὶ θρυμματίδεσ καὶ θρῖα καὶ μελιτοῦτται· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:3)
  • καὶ ἔστιν αὐτοῖσι τῶν μὲν ὀφθαλμῶν ἰήμα βόειον γάλα ἐγχεόμενον, πρὸσ δὲ τὰσ ἄλλασ νούσουσ μέλασ οἶνοσ πινόμενοσ, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖσιν ἕλκεσι ὑειά κρέα ὀπτεύμενα καὶ καταπλασσόμενα. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 14 9:1)
  • τὰ δ’ ὑειά καὶ ἄρνεια κρέα ἀδιαπόνητα ταῖσ ἕξεσιν ὑπάρχοντα ῥᾷστα φθείρεται διὰ τὴν πιμελήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 66 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to swine

Related

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

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