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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)
  • "Διονύσιοσ δὲ ὁ τύραννοσ ἐν τῷ Ἀδώνιδι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 64 1:8)
  • Πλάτων δ’ ἐν τῷ Ἀδώνιδι χρησμὸν δοθῆναι λέγων Κινύρᾳ ὑπὲρ Ἀδώνιδοσ τοῦ υἱοῦ φησιν ὦ Κινύρα, βασιλεῦ Κυπρίων, ἀνδρῶν δασυπρώκτων, παῖσ σοι κάλλιστοσ μὲν ἔφυ θαυμαστότατόσ τε πάντων ἀνθρώπων, δύο δ’ αὐτὸν δαίμον’ ὀλεῖτον, ἡ μὲν ἐλαυνομένη λαθρίοισ ἐρετμοῖσ, ὁ δ’ ἐλαύνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 83 3:1)
  • οἷσ καὶ σύνεισιν Ηὢσ μὲν Κεφάλῳ καὶ Κλείτῳ καὶ Τιθωνῷ, Δημήτηρ Ιἀσίωνι, Ἀφροδίτη Ἀγχίσῃ καὶ Ἀδώνιδι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 20 4:2)
  • καὶ ταῦτ’ ἔχων τὸ ῥύγχοσ οὑτωσὶ μακρόν, καὶ Ἀραρὼσ Ἀδώνιδι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 48 4:2)

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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