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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

  • νῦν γὰρ εἶ χρεῖοσ φίλων. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 3:33)
  • χρεῖοσ εἶ ξένη φυγάσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 1:11)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐρέεινον, χρεῖοσ ὅ τι φρονέουσα μετήλυθεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 13:11)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀνυστὸν ἀθανάτουσ κρύψαι χρεῖοσ ὀφειλόμενον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389711)
  • ᾬχευ ἔτ’ ἀσκίπων Κινησία, Ἑρμόλα υἱὲ ἐκτίσων Αἴδῃ χρεῖοσ ὀφειλόμενον, γήρᾳ ἔτ’ ἄρτια πάντα φέρων· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 7321)
  • [ἐκ τᾶ]σ μὲν γένοσ ἔπλε[το καρτε]ρόχειρ Ἀργεῖοσ [ ] λέοντοσ θυμὸ[ν ἔχων], ὁπότε χρεῖ[όσ τι συμ]βολοῖ μάχασ, ποσσί[ν τ’ ἐλα]φρό[σ, π]ατρίων τ’ οὐκ [ἀπόκλαροσ κ]αλῶν, τόσα Παν[θείδᾳ κλυτό]το‐ ξοσ Ἀπό[λλων ὤπασε]ν, ἀμφί τ’ ἰατορίᾳ ξείνων τε φιλάνορι τιμᾷ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 12:1)
  • πάντωσ γὰρ εἶναι ψιλὴν αὐτὴν παρηκολούθηκεν, οἱο͂ν νεὤσ, λεὤσ, Τυνδάρεὠσ, Μενέλεὠσ, λειπόνεὠσ, εὔνεὠσ, Νείλεὠσ, πρᾶὀσ, υἱὄσ, Κεῖὀσ, Χῖὀσ, δῖὀσ, χρεῖὀσ, πλεῖὀσ, λεῖὀσ, λαιὄσ, βαιὄσ, φαιὄσ, πηὄσ, γόὀσ, θοὄσ, ῥόὀσ, ζωὄσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 57 1:1)

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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