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χαριστήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαριστήριος χαριστήριον

Structure: χαριστηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for thanksgiving
  2. a thank-offering, thank-offerings

Examples

  • καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο θυσίαι τε χαριστήριοι θεοῖσ ἐπετελοῦντο δημοσίᾳ, καὶ ἀγῶνεσ ἐπιφανεῖσ λαμπραῖσ πάνυ χορηγούμενοι δαπάναισ, ἐν εὐπαθείαισ τε καὶ θαλίαισ ἡ πόλισ ἦν ὥσπερ εἰκόσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 54 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a thank-offering

Related

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

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