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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

  • μὴ δῷσ οὖν κἀμοί, πρὸσ Ἀδώνιδοσ, εἰκάσαι παμπόνηρον ἄνθρωπον, ἁπάσῃ κακίᾳ σύντροφον, ἡμέρᾳ δυσφήμῳ καὶ ἀπαισίῳ ; (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 13:4)
  • καὶ πρῴην μὲν ὅτε ὁ γεωργὸσ ὁ Ἀχαρνεὺσ ἧκε δύο μνᾶσ κομίζων, ἀγένειοσ καὶ αὐτόσ ‐ οἴνου δὲ τιμὴν ἀπειλήφει τοῦ πατρὸσ πέμψαντοσ ‐ σὺ δὲ ἐκεῖνον μὲν ἀπεμύκτισασ, καθεύδεισ δὲ μετὰ τοῦ Ἀδώνιδοσ Χαιρέου. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:5)
  • 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)
  • λέγει δ’ Ἀφροδίτην καὶ Διόνυσον ἀμφότεροι γὰρ ἤρων τοῦ Ἀδώνιδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 83 4:1)
  • "Ὑστάσπῃ νεώτεροσ ἦν ἀδελφὸσ Ζαριάδρησ, περὶ ὧν λέγουσιν οἱ ἐπιχώριοι ὅτι ἐξ Ἀφροδίτησ καὶ Ἀδώνιδοσ ἐγεννήθησαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 352)

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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