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χθιζός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χθιζός χθιζή χθιζόν

Structure: χθιζ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xqe/s

Sense

  1. of yesterday, yesterday's, yesterday's, yesterday

Examples

  • χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν, σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ ὁ βίοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 8:9)
  • καὶ Ὅμηροσ δὲ τοὺσ νέουσ στρατιώτασ οὕτω προσηγόρευσε κρινάμενοσ κούρητασ ἀριστῆασ Παναχαιῶν, δῶρα θοῆσ παρὰ νηὸσ ἐνεγκεῖν, ὅσσ’ Ἀχιλῆι χθιζοὶ ὑπέστημεν καὶ πάλιν δῶρα φέρον κούρητεσ Ἀχαιοί. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 14:7)

Synonyms

  1. of yesterday

Related

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

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