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Ἀτλαντίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀτλαντίς

Structure: Ἀτλαντιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Atlantic ocean

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

  • καθάπερ ἐν τοῖσ πρόσθεν ἐλέχθη περὶ τῆσ τῶν θεῶν λήξεωσ, ὅτι κατενείμαντο γῆν πᾶσαν ἔνθα μὲν μείζουσ λήξεισ, ἔνθα δὲ καὶ ἐλάττουσ, ἱερὰ θυσίασ τε αὑτοῖσ κατασκευάζοντεσ, οὕτω δὴ καὶ τὴν νῆσον Ποσειδῶν τὴν Ἀτλαντίδα λαχὼν ἐκγόνουσ αὑτοῦ κατῴκισεν ἐκ θνητῆσ γυναικὸσ γεννήσασ ἔν τινι τόπῳ τοιῷδε τῆσ νήσου. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 50:1)
  • παίδων δὲ ἀρρένων πέντε γενέσεισ διδύμουσ γεννησάμενοσ ἐθρέψατο, καὶ τὴν νῆσον τὴν Ἀτλαντίδα πᾶσαν δέκα μέρη κατανείμασ τῶν μὲν πρεσβυτάτων τῷ προτέρῳ γενομένῳ τήν τε μητρῴαν οἴκησιν καὶ τὴν κύκλῳ λῆξιν, πλείστην καὶ ἀρίστην οὖσαν, ἀπένειμε, βασιλέα τε τῶν ἄλλων κατέστησε, τοὺσ δὲ ἄλλουσ ἄρχοντασ, ἑκάστῳ δὲ ἀρχὴν πολλῶν ἀνθρώπων καὶ τόπον πολλῆσ χώρασ ἔδωκεν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 53:3)

Synonyms

  1. the Atlantic ocean

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

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