Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χήρειος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χήρειος χήρειᾱ χήρειον

Structure: χηρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xh/ra

Sense

  1. widowed

Examples

  • νῦν δὲ ἥξει ἐπὶ σὲ τὰ δύο ταῦτα ἐξαίφνησ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾶ. ἀτεκνία καὶ χηρεία ἥξει ἐξαίφνησ ἐπὶ σὲ ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου, ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ τῶν ἐπαοιδῶν σου σφόδρα, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 47:9)
  • ἔπειτα γαμετῆσ σώφρονοσ, ἣ διὰ τὸν σὸν πόθον ἐν ἐρημίᾳ καὶ χηρείᾳ κάθηται πᾶσαν ἡμέραν καὶ νύκτα τὰσ σὰσ φυγὰσ ὀδυρομένη· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 28 1:4)
  • ἡ γὰρ χηρεία λιπανδρία τίσ ἐστιν, οὐκ ἀφανισμὸσ τέλειοσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 56:7)

Synonyms

  1. widowed

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

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