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Βορέας

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βορέας

Structure: Βορε (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from o)/ros, vo/ros, wind from the mountains.

Sense

  1. the North wind, the North, northward

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Βορέας Βορέᾱ Βορέαι
Genitive Βορέου Βορέαιν Βορεῶν
Dative Βορέᾱͅ Βορέαιν Βορέαις
Accusative Βορέᾱν Βορέᾱ Βορέᾱς
Vocative Βορέᾱ Βορέᾱ Βορέαι

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

  • ῥιπᾷ γὰρ ἴσοσ βορέα ὃν κυβερνήταν φυλάσσων ἱέται νεόκροτον νίκαν Ιἕρωνι φιλοξείνῳ τιτύσκων. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 4:3)
  • τοτὲ μὲν νοτίαν στείχων πρὸσ ὁδόν, τοτὲ δ’ αὖ βορέᾳ σῶμα πελάζων ἀλίμενον αἰθέροσ αὔλακα τέμνων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode, lyric18)
  • ἐπιθυμιάσασ τῷ Βορέᾳ λιβανίδιον ὀψάριον οὐδὲν ἔλαβον· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 35 1:11)
  • καὶ μέσον ἔχων τὸν Ιὄνιον ἁρπάζεται βορέᾳ ἀνέμῳ παρ’ ὡρ́αν ἐκραγέντι. (Plutarch, chapter 15 1:3)
  • πολλὰ γὰρ ὥστ’ ἀκάμαντοσ ἢ νότου ἢ βορέα τισ κύματ’ ἂν εὐρέϊ πόντῳ βάντ’ ἐπιόντα τ’ ἴδοι, οὕτῶ δὲ τὸν Καδμογενῆ στρέφει, τὸ δ’ αὔξει, βιότου πολύπονον ὥσπερ πέλαγοσ Κρήσιον. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral, strophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. the North wind

Related

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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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