ἐπιχωρίων (epichorion)

ἐπιχωρίων is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιχώριος, meaning “of the country, native”.

It can also be a form of ἐπιχώπιος, “of the country, native”. It is the genitive plural feminine adjective.

Found 145 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 29.2: … τὸ τῆς αἰγὸς ἕλος ἐκ πόλεως κατιόντας· τὴν γὰρ αἶγα κάπραν ὀνομάζουσιν. ἐξιόντες δὲ πρὸς τὴν θυσίαν πολλὰ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ὀνομάτων φθέγγονται μετὰ βοῆς, οἷον Μάρκου, Λουκίου, Γαΐου, μιμούμενοι τὴν τότε τροπὴν καὶ ἀνάκλησιν ἀλλήλων …

All forms of ἐπιχώριος (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.