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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

  • ἱερὸν δὲ Πασιφάασ καὶ μαντεῖον ἦν ἐν Θαλάμαισ τιμώμενον, ἥν τινὲσ μὲν ἱστοροῦσι τῶν Ἀτλαντίδων μίαν οὖσαν ἐκ Διὸσ τὸν Ἄμμωνα τεκεῖν, τινὲσ δὲ Κασάνδραν τὴν Πριάμου τελευτήσασαν ἐνταῦθα καὶ διὰ τὸ πᾶσι φαίνειν τὰ μαντεῖα Πασιφάαν προσαγορευθεῖσαν. (Plutarch, Agis, chapter 9 2:1)
  • τούτων δὲ τῶν Ἀτλαντίδων κάλλει καὶ σωφροσύνῃ διαφερουσῶν, λέγουσι Βούσιριν τὸν βασιλέα τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἐπιθυμῆσαι τῶν παρθένων ἐγκρατῆ γενέσθαι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 27 2:3)
  • οὕτω δ’ αὐτῶν πολιτευομένων λέγουσι παρ’ αὐτοῖσ τοὺσ ἐκ Διὸσ καὶ μιᾶσ τῶν Ἀτλαντίδων Ἠλέκτρασ γενέσθαι Δάρδανόν τε καὶ Ιἀσίωνα καὶ Ἁρμονίαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 48 2:1)

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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