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χερνήτης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χερνήτης χερνήτες

Structure: χερνητη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = xernh/s, Aesch.

Sense

Examples

  • ἦν δὲ παλαίτερον ἔτι συνερρυηκὼσ ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν ὁ χερνήτησ καὶ αὐτουργὸσ ὄχλοσ, καὶ προσνεμηθεὶσ τῷ κατὰ πόλιν τήν τε ἀγορὰν ἐνέπλησε καὶ τοὺσ φέροντασ εἰσ αὐτὴν στενωπούσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 48 7:1)

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

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