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χθόνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χθόνιος χθόνιᾱ χθόνιον

Structure: χθονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xqw/n

Sense

  1. in, under or beneath the earth, subterranean, of the nether world, with, gods below
  2. of or from the earth
  3. in or of the country, native
  4. of the earth

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative χθόνιος χθονίᾱ χθόνιον
Genitive χθονίου χθονίᾱς χθονίου
Dative χθονίῳ χθονίᾱͅ χθονίῳ
Accusative χθόνιον χθονίᾱν χθόνιον
Vocative χθόνιε χθονίᾱ χθόνιον
DualN/A/V χθονίω χθονίᾱ χθονίω
G/D χθονίοιν χθονίαιν χθονίοιν
PluralNominative χθόνιοι χθόνιαι χθόνια
Genitive χθονίων χθονιῶν χθονίων
Dative χθονίοις χθονίαις χθονίοις
Accusative χθονίους χθονίᾱς χθόνια
Vocative χθόνιοι χθόνιαι χθόνια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective χθόνιος χθονίου χθονιώτερος χθονιωτέρου χθονιώτατος χθονιωτάτου
Adverb χθονίως χθονιώτερον χθονιώτατα

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

  • ὦ μέγα χρύσεον ἀστεροπῆσ φάοσ, ὦ Διὸσ ἄμβροτον ἔγχοσ πυρφόρον, ὦ χθόνιαι βαρυαχέεσ ὀμβροφόροι θ’ ἅμα βρονταί, αἷσ ὅδε νῦν χθόνα σείει. (Aristophanes, Birds, Exodus, lyric1)
  • ὦ χθόνιαι θεαὶ σῶμά τ’ ἀνικάτου θηρόσ, ὃν ἐν πύλαισι ταῖσι πολυξένοισ εὐνᾶσθαι κνυζεῖσθαί τ’ ἐξ ἄντρων ἀδάματον φύλακα παρ’ Αἵδᾳ λόγοσ αἰὲν ἔχει· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • οἰοπόλοι δ’ εἰμὲν χθόνιαι θεαὶ αὐδήεσσαι, ἡρῷσσαι, Λιβύησ τιμήοροι ἠδὲ θύγατρεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 21:4)

Synonyms

  1. in

  2. of or from the earth

  3. in or of the country

  4. of the earth

Related

Similar forms

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

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