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χερνής

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χερνής χερνῆτος

Structure: χερνητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. one who lives by his hands, a day-labourer, a poor man
  2. poor, needy

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χερνής χερνῆτε χερνῆτες
Genitive χερνῆτος χερνήτοιν χερνήτων
Dative χερνῆτι χερνήτοιν χερνῆσιν*
Accusative χερνῆτα χερνῆτε χερνῆτας
Vocative χερνή χερνῆτε χερνῆτες

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

  • ὧν ἓν μέροσ κατέχουσιν οἱ χερνῆτεσ· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 3 61:5)
  • χερνῆτα βίον δηναιόν, Ἀθάνα πότνια, ταῦθ’ αἱ σαὶ σοὶ θέσαν ἐργάτιδεσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 39 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. one who lives by his hands

    • πένης (one who works for his daily bread, a day-labourer, a poor man)

Similar forms

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

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