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Ἄδωνις?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 그리스 식물 고유 Transliteration: Adōnis

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

  • οὔνομα τῷ ποταμῷ Ἄδωνις ἐπικέαται. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 8:3)
  • μυθέονται δὲ ὅτι ταύτῃσι τῇσι ἡμέρῃσιν ὁ Ἄδωνις ἀνὰ τὸν Λίβανον τιτρώσκεται, καὶ τὸ αἷμα ἐς τὸ ὕδωρ ἐρχόμενον ἀλλάσσει τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ τῷ ῥόῳ τὴν ἐπωνυμίην διδοῖ. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 8:5)
  • "ὁ Ἄδωνις ὁ ποταμός, ὦ ξεῖνε, διὰ τοῦ Λιβάνου ἔρχεται: (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 8:9)
  • Νίκανδρος δ ὁ Κολοφώνιος ἐν β Γλωσσῶν βρένθιν λέγεσθαί φησι παρὰ Κυπρίοις θρίδακα, οὗ ὁ Ἄδωνις καταφυγὼν ὑπὸ τοῦ κάπρου διεφθάρη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 801)
  • Ἄδωνις δὲ ἔτι παῖς ὢν Ἀρτέμιδος χόλῳ πληγεὶς ἐν θήρᾳ ὑπὸ συὸς ἀπέθανεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 14 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. Adonis

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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