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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

  • ἐπεὰν δὲ ἀποτύψωνταί τε καὶ ἀποκλαύσωνται, πρῶτα μὲν καταγίζουσι τῷ Ἀδώνιδι ὅκωσ ἐόντι νέκυι, μετὰ δὲ τῇ ἑτέρῃ ἡμέρῃ ζώειν τέ μιν μυθολογέουσι καὶ ἐσ τὸν ἠέρα πέμπουσι καὶ τὰσ κεφαλὰσ ξύρονται ὅκωσ Αἰγύπτιοι ἀποθανόντοσ Ἄπιοσ. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 6:3)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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

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

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