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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

  • βουλομένοισι μὲν ἐμέο πείθεσθαί ἔστι τάδε τε καὶ ἄλλα μυρία ἀγαθά, οὐδένα πόνον δουλοπρεπέα ἔχουσι, μὴ βουλομένοισι δὲ ἐμέο πείθεσθαι εἰσὶ ὑμῖν πόνοι τῷ χθιζῷ παραπλήσιοι ἀναρίθμητοι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 126 6:1)

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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