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χέρσῳ (cherso)

χέρσῳ is an Ancient Greek form of χέρσος, meaning “dry land”. It is the dative singular feminine noun.

Found 32 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.939: χέρσῳ ἐπιπρηνὴς καταειμένος· ἐν δέ οἱ ἀκταὶ

Callimachus, Hymn to Demeter 58: ἴθματα μὲν χέρσω, κεφαλὰ δέ οἱ ἅψατʼ Ὀλύμπω.

All forms of χέρσος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.