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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

  • πολλοὺσ δ’ Ἀθήνασ πατρίδ’ εἰσ θεόκτιτον ἀνήγαγον πραθέντασ, ἄλλον ἐκδίκωσ, ἄλλον δικαίωσ, τοὺσ δ’ ἀναγκαίησ ὕπο χρειοῦσ φυγόντασ, γλῶσσαν οὐκέτ’ Ἀττικὴν ἱέντασ ὡσ ἂν πολλαχῇ πλανωμένουσ, τοὺσ δ’ ἐνθάδ’ αὐτοῦ δουλίην ἀεικέα ἔχοντασ, ἤθη δεσποτῶν τρομευμένουσ, ἐλευθέρουσ ἔθηκα. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , <*/g Ia/mbwn>6)

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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