Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ὑπόστεγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπόστεγος ὑπόστεγον

Structure: ὑποστεγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ste/gh

Sense

  1. under the roof, in or into the house

Examples

  • ποταμοῦ καταγαγεῖν, τὸν δ’ ἀμφιθέατρον ἱππόδρομον οὐδὲν ἔξω κρηπίδων ἔχοντα παστάσιν ὑποστέγοισ περιλαβεῖν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 44 2:1)
  • ἰώμεν οὖν ἐπὶ θεράποντάσ τε καὶ σκεύη καὶ ἀγορὰν τὴν ἐκείνων, ἑώσ χειμάζουσιν ἐν ὑποστέγοισ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 8 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. under 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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