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Ἀραμαῖοι

Second declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀραμαῖοι

Structure: Ἀραμαι (Stem) + οι (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Aramaeans (Aramaic-speaking Semitic tribes who settled in northern Syria and Mesopotamia)

Declension

Second 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

  • οἱ δὲ τοὺσ Σύρουσ Ἀρίμουσ δέχονται, οὓσ νῦν Ἀραμαίουσ λέγουσι, τοὺσ δὲ Κίλικασ τοὺσ ἐν Τροίᾳ μεταναστάντασ εἰσ Συρίαν ἀνῳκισμένουσ ἀποτεμέσθαι παρὰ τῶν Σύρων τὴν νῦν λεγομένην Κιλικίαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 9:14)
  • φησὶ δὲ ταῦτα τρία ἔθνη συνεχῆ ἀλλήλοισ ἱδρυμένα ὁμογένειάν τινα ἐμφαίνειν πρὸσ ἄλληλα, καὶ διὰ [τοῦ]το παρακειμένοισ ὀνόμασι κεκλῆσθαι, τοὺσ μὲν Ἀρμενίουσ τοὺσ δὲ Ἀραμαίουσ τοὺσ δὲ Ἀραμβούσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 53:6)
  • Ἀραμαῖοι γὰρ οἱ ἐν αὐτῇ· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 53:11)
  • Ἀραμαίουσ δὲ Ἄραμοσ ἔσχεν, οὓσ Ἕλληνεσ Σύρουσ προσαγορεύουσιν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 179:2)

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