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χειμάδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειμάδιον χειμάδιου

Structure: χειμαδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from xei=ma

Sense

  1. a winter-dwelling, winter-quarters, winter-quarters

Declension

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

  • ὕστερον δ’ ὑπὸ Κύρου καὶ Περσῶν ἀφαιρεθεῖσα τὴν τοσαύτην ἐξουσίαν ἐπὶ Ἀστυάγου διεφύλαττεν ὅμωσ πολὺ τοῦ πατρίου ἀξιώματοσ, καὶ ἦν τὰ Ἐκβάτανα χειμάδιον τοῖσ Πέρσαισ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 13 7:2)
  • ταύτην δ’ ἐποιοῦντο χειμάδιον οἱ τῶν Παρθυαίων βασιλεῖσ φειδόμενοι τῶν Σελευκέων, ἵνα μὴ κατασταθμεύοιντο ὑπὸ τοῦ Σκυθικοῦ φύλου καὶ στρατιωτικοῦ· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 32:3)
  • τὸ δὲ χειμάδιόν ἐστιν αὐτοῖσ ἐν Σελευκείᾳ τῇ ἐπὶ τῷ Τίγριδι πλησίον Βαβυλῶνοσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 13 2:5)

Related

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

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