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χερσονήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χερσονήσιος

Structure: χερσονησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or like a peninsula

Declension

First/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

  • νῦν δ’ ὑπὲρ μητρὸσ φίλησ Ἑκάβησ ἀίσσω, σῶμ’ ἐρημώσασ ἐμόν, τριταῖον ἤδη φέγγοσ αἰωρούμενοσ, ὅσονπερ ἐν γῇ τῇδε Χερσονησίᾳ μήτηρ ἐμὴ δύστηνοσ ἐκ Τροίασ πάρα. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:8)

Synonyms

  1. of or like a peninsula

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

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