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χερσαῖος

Second declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χερσαῖος χερσαίου

Structure: χερσαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. (geography) peninsula

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

  • τὰ θηρία τῶν πλείστων ἀπέχεται, ὀλίγοισ δὲ πολεμεῖ διὰ τὴν τῆσ τροφῆσ ἀνάγκην ἀλλ’ οὔτε τι πτηνὸν οὔτε νηκτόν, ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν, οὔτε χερσαῖον ἐκπέφευγε τὰσ ἡμέρουσ δὴ λεγομένασ; (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 8 8:1)
  • βρῦτον δὲ τὸν χερσαῖον οὐ φίλον πιεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 67 1:2)
  • ἀπολειπόντων διὰ κρύοσ αὐτήν, τὸν δ’ ἔναλον ἀέρα καὶ πελάγιον θερμὸν ὄντα περιβαλλομένων εἶτ’ αὖθισ ἐν θέρει τὸν γηγενῆ καὶ χερσαῖον ὑπὸ καύματοσ ποθοῦμεν , οὐκ αὐτὸν ὄντα ψυχρὸν ἀλλὰ τοῦ φύσει ψυχροῦ καὶ πρώτωσ ἀποβλαστάνοντα καὶ βεβαμμένον ὑπὸ τῆσ ἐν γῇ δυνάμεωσ ὥσπερ βαφῇ σίδηρον. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 20 3:1)
  • καίτοι χερσαῖον οὐδὲν ἴσμεν ἑτέρῳ κινδυνεύοντι τολμῶν ἀμύνειν, οὐκ ἄρκτον οὐ σῦν οὐδὲ λέαιναν οὐδὲ πάρδαλιν ἀλλὰ συγχωρεῖ μὲν εἰσ ταὐτὸν ἐν τοῖσ θεάτροισ τὰ ὁμόφυλα καὶ κύκλῳ μετ’ ἀλλήλων περίεισιν· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 25 4:1)
  • βοᾷ γὰρ κῦμα χερσαῖον στρατοῦ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 4:11)

Synonyms

  1. peninsula

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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