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χρεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρεῖος χρεῖον

Structure: χρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xrh/

Sense

  1. needing, being in want of

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • πάντων δὲ χρεῖοι τάσδ’ ἕδρασ φυλάσσομεν, σίτων ποτῶν ἐσθῆτοσ, ἀστρώτῳ πέδῳ πλευρὰσ τιθέντεσ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode 2:6)
  • ἀμφότερον δ’, ἱκέτησ ξεῖνόσ τέ τοι ἐνθάδ’ ἱκάνω, χρειοῖ ἀναγκαίῃ γουνούμενοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 16:23)
  • ἠε͂́ σε πάγχυ λαθιφροσύναισ ἐνέηκαν ἀγλαϊαί, τῶν δ’ οὔτι μετατρέπῃ, ὅσσ’ ἀγόρευεσ χρειοῖ ἐνισχόμενοσ; (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 7:4)
  • μέμασαν δὲ καὶ ὧσ ὑσμῖνι μάχεσθαι χρειοῖ ἀναγκαίῃ, πρό τε παίδων καὶ πρὸ γυναικῶν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 8 7:3)

Synonyms

  1. needing

Related

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

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