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Ἕλλην

Third declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἕλλην Ἕλληνος

Structure: Ἑλλην (Stem)

Sense

  1. Greek, one who is from Greece or speaks Greek.
  2. one who participates in Greek culture.
  3. often used in Jewish and Christian literature as referring to any non-Jew: gentile
  4. pagan

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

  • ’ τὸ δὲ ἀπὸ τούτου διελόμενοι κατὰ ἔθνη τὰσ ταφὰσ ὁ μὲν Ἕλλην ἔκαυσεν, ὁ δὲ Πέρσησ ἔθαψεν, ὁ δὲ Ἰνδὸσ ὑάλῳ περιχρίει, ὁ δὲ Σκύθησ κατεσθίει, ταριχεύει δὲ ὁ Αἰγύπτιοσ· (Lucian, (no name) 19:2)
  • ὁ γάρ τοι γενναιότατοσ οὗτοσ Διόνυσοσ ἡμιάνθρωποσ ὤν, οὐδὲ Ἕλλην μητρόθεν ἀλλὰ Συροφοίνικόσ τινοσ ἐμπόρου τοῦ Κάδμου θυγατριδοῦσ, ἐπείπερ ἠξιώθη τῆσ ἀθανασίασ, οἱο͂σ μὲν αὐτόσ ἐστιν οὐ λέγω, οὔτε τὴν μίτραν οὔτε τὴν μέθην οὔτε τὸ βάδισμα· (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 4:2)
  • οὐχ Ἕλλην, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἀπὸ γοῦν τῆσ στολῆσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 9:2)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ κατήγοροσ καὶ σιωπῶν ἀξιόπιστοσ, σὺ δὲ Ἕλλην καὶ ῥᾴδιοσ τὸν τρόπον καὶ πρὸσ πᾶσαν ἀδικίαν εὔκολοσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 40:3)
  • ἥ γε καὶ παρεσκεύασται, ἤν τισ Ἕλλην ἀφίκηταί ποτε έσ τὴν Ταυρικήν, συνεκπλεῦσαι μετ̓ αὐτοῦ μυσαττομένη τὰσ σφαγάσ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:6)

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