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χήνειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χήνειος χήνειᾱ χήνειον

Structure: χηνει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to a goose

Examples

  • χηνείων δ’ ᾠῶν Ἔριφοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 50 3:9)
  • "χῆνέσ μοι κατὰ οἶκον ἐείκοσι πυρὸν ἔδουσιν ἐξ ὕδατοσ, χηνείων δὲ ἡπάτων περισπούδαστα δὲ ταῦτα κατὰ τὴν ̔ Ῥώμην μνημονεύει Εὔβουλοσ ἐν Στεφανοπώλισι λέγων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 3211)

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

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