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χαμαιεύνης?

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: chamaieunēs

Principal Part: χαμαιεύνης χαμαιεύνου

Structure: χαμαιευν (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: εὐνή

Sense

  1. lying, sleeping on the ground

Declension

First 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

  • Ζεῦ ἄνα Δωδωναῖε Πελασγικὲ τηλόθι ναίων Δωδώνης μεδέων δυσχειμέρου, ἀμφὶ δὲ Σελλοὶ σοὶ ναίους ὑποφῆται ἀνιπτόποδες χαμαιεῦναι, ἠμὲν δή ποτ ἐμὸν ἔπος ἔκλυες εὐξαμένοιο, τίμησας μὲν ἐμέ, μέγα δ ἴψαο λαὸν Ἀχαιῶν, ἠδ ἔτι καὶ νῦν μοι τόδ ἐπικρήηνον ἐέλδωρ: (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 16:12)
  • ἅπαντες δ οἱ ὄρειοι λιτοὶ ὑδροπόται χαμαιεῦναι βαθεῖαν κατακεχυμένοι τὴν κόμην γυναικῶν δίκην: (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 3 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. lying

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

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