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χερσονησίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χερσονησίτης

Structure: χερσονησιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a dweller in the Thracian Chersonese

Declension

First 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

  • καί οἱ τελευτήσαντι Χερσονησῖται θύουσι ὡσ νόμοσ οἰκιστῇ, καὶ ἀγῶνα ἱππικόν τε καὶ γυμνικὸν ἐπιστᾶσι, ἐν τῷ Λαμψακηνῶν οὐδενὶ ἐγγίνεται ἀγωνίζεσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 38 2:2)
  • οἱ δὲ Χερσονησῖται πυνθανόμενοι ταῦτα συνελέχθησαν ἀπὸ πασέων τῶν πολίων οἱ δυναστεύοντεσ πάντοθεν, κοινῷ δὲ στόλῳ ἀπικόμενοι ὡσ συλλυπηθησόμενοι ἐδέθησαν ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 6, chapter 39 3:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἡμέρη ἐγένετο, οἱ Χερσονησῖται ἀπὸ τῶν πύργων ἐσήμηναν τοῖσι Ἀθηναίοισι τὸ γεγονὸσ καὶ τὰσ πύλασ ἄνοιξαν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 118 3:1)

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

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