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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

  • Ἥκω νεκρῶν κευθμῶνα καὶ σκότου πύλασ λιπών, ἵν’ Αἵδησ χωρὶσ ᾤκισται θεῶν, Πολύδωροσ, Ἑκάβησ παῖσ γεγὼσ τῆσ Κισσέωσ Πριάμου τε πατρόσ, ὅσ μ’, ἐπεὶ Φρυγῶν πόλιν κίνδυνοσ ἔσχε δορὶ πεσεῖν Ἑλληνικῷ, δείσασ ὑπεξέπεμψε Τρωικῆσ χθονὸσ Πολυμήστοροσ πρὸσ δῶμα Θρῃκίου ξένου, ὃσ τήν<δ’> ἀρίστην Χερσονησίαν πλάκα σπείρει, φίλιππον λαὸν εὐθύνων δορί. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:1)

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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