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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ἄδωνις Ἀδώνιδε Ἀδώνιδες
Genitive Ἀδώνιδος Ἀδωνίδοιν Ἀδωνίδων
Dative Ἀδώνιδι Ἀδωνίδοιν Ἀδώνισιν*
Accusative Ἀδώνιδα Ἀδώνιδε Ἀδώνιδας
Vocative Ά̓δωνις Ἀδώνιδε Ἀδώνιδες

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

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

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