χερσαῖος

From χέρσος (khérsos, “dry land”) +‎ -αῖος (-aîos, adjective suffix).

χερσαῖος • (khersaîos) m (feminine χερσαίᾱ, neuter χερσαῖον); first/second declension
χερσαῖος • (khersaîos) m or 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
   • 360 BCE, Plato, The Sophist 223b
   • 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 704b
   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

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

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

1. (geography) peninsula

   Synonym: χερσόνησος (khersónēsos)

   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Lycophron, Alexandra 534

• “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.