Ancient Greek

Adjective

χερσαῖος • ‎(khersaîos) m ‎(feminine χερσαίᾱ, neuter χερσαῖον); first/second declension
χερσαῖος • ‎(khersaîos) m, f ‎(neuter χερσαῖον); second declension

1. from or of dry land, living or found on dry land
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.119
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.192
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.68
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.123
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 40a
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Marvellous Things Heard 842b7
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 2.505b
   • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   • Palatine Anthology 9.14
   1. (of landsmen)
      • 425 BCE, Euripides, Andromache 457
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.67
      • 100 BCE – 1 BCE, Asclepiodotus, Tactics 1.1
   2. inland
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 704.b
   3. (of voyages) traveling by land
      • Palatine Anthology 11.42
      • Palatine Anthology 4.3b.46
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.750b
   4. (military, of ground forces)
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 64
      • 315 BCE – 240 BCE, Aratus, 919

Declension

Antonyms

• (from or of dry land): λιμναῖος ‎(limnaîos), θᾰλᾰ́σσῐος ‎(thalássios)/θᾰλᾰ́ττῐος ‎(thaláttios)

Noun

χερσαῖος • ‎(khersaîos) f ‎(genitive χερσαίου); second declension

1. (geography) peninsula
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Collected Works 534

Declension

Synonyms

• (peninsula): χερσόνησος ‎(khersónēsos)

References

• χερσαῖος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χερσαῖος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χερσαῖος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dry idem, page 255.
  • land idem, page 475.
  • landlubber idem, page 475.
  • landsman idem, page 475.
  • lubber idem, page 503.