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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 δέ μοι χρειὼ μεγάλησ πίστιοσ, τῷ σε θέλω γυναικὶ ἐμῇ ἑσπόμενον ἔργον τέ μοι ἐπιτελέσαι καὶ ἱρὰ τελέσαι καὶ στρατιῆσ ἐπικρατέειν σοὶ δὲ ἀπικομένῳ ἐξ ἡμέων τιμὴ μεγάλη ἔσσεται. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 19:5)
  • φιλότησ, χρειώ με κατήγαγεν εἰσ Αἰ̈́δαο ψυχῇ χρησόμενον Θηβαίου. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 1:18)
  • "Ὑμῖν μὲν δὴ μοῖρα θεῶν χρειώ τε περῆσαι ἐνθάδε κῶασ ἄγοντασ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 8:26)
  • φράζεο δ’ ὅππωσ χεῖρασ ἐμὰσ σόοσ ἐξαλέοιο, χρειὼ θεσπίζων μεταμώνιον εἴ κεν ἁλῴησ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 9:24)
  • ἀλλὰ τί μύθουσ Αἰθαλίδεω χρειώ με διηνεκέωσ ἀγορεύειν; (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 12:4)

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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