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Ἄδωνις

Third declension Noun; Masculine 그리스 식물 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἄδωνις Ἀδώνιδος

Structure: Ἀδωνιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Adonis, an Adonis, a darling
  2. quick-growing herbs, for the Adonia

Declension

Third 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

  • εἰσὶ δ’ οἳ καὶ ἐπὶ κάλλει θαυμάζεσθαι ἐθέλουσιν, καὶ δεῖ Ἀδώνιδασ αὐτοὺσ καὶ Υἁκίνθουσ ἀκούειν, πήχεωσ ἐνίοτε τὴν ῥῖνα ἔχοντασ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 35:6)

Synonyms

  1. Adonis

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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