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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

  • οἱ δὲ κατὰ τὴν πόλιν Ἕλληνεσ οὐδὲν ἠδικημένοι, ταραχὴν ἀπροσδόκητον περὶ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ θεωροῦντεσ καὶ συνδρομὰσ ἀπροσκόπτουσ γινομένασ, βοηθεῖν μὲν οὐκ ἔσθενον, τυραννικὴ γὰρ ἦν ἡ διάθεσισ, παρεκάλουν δὲ καὶ δυσφόρωσ εἶχον καὶ μεταπεσεῖσθαι ταῦτα ὑπελάμβανον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 3:8)
  • Ἕλληνεσ δὲ οὔτε παρ’ Αἰθιόπων οὔτε παρ’ Αἰγυπτίων ἀστρολογίησ πέρι οὐδὲν ἤκουσαν, ἀλλὰ σφίσιν Ὀρφεὺσ ὁ Οἰάγρου καὶ Καλλιόπησ πρῶτοσ τάδε ἀπηγήσατο, οὐ μάλα ἐμφανέωσ, οὐδὲ ἐσ φάοσ τὸν λόγον προήνεγκεν, ἀλλ’ ἐσ γοητείην καὶ ἱερολογίην, οἱή διανοίη ἐκείνου. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 10:1)
  • ταῦτα Ὀρφεὺσ διζήμενοσ καὶ ταῦτα ἀνακινέων πάντα ἔθελγεν καὶ πάντων ἐκράτεεν οὐ γὰρ ἐκείνην τὴν λύρην ἔβλεπεν οὐδὲ οἱ ἄλλησ ἔμελε μουσουργίησ, ἀλλ’ αὕτη Ὀρφέοσ ἡ μεγάλη λύρη, Ἕλληνέσ τε τάδε τιμέοντεσ μοίρην ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ^ ἀπέκριναν καὶ ἀστέρεσ πολλοὶ καλέονται λύρη Ὀρφέοσ. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 10:4)
  • Ἴκαροσ δέ, νεότητι καὶ ἀτασθαλίῃ χρεόμενοσ καὶ οὐκ ἐπιεικτὰ διζήμενοσ ἀλλὰ ἐσ πόλον ^ ἀερθεὶσ τῷ νῷ, ἐξέπεσε τῆσ ἀληθείησ καὶ παντὸσ ἀπεσφάλη τοῦ λόγου καὶ ἐσ πέλαγοσ κατηνέχθη ἀβύσσων πρηγμάτων, τὸν Ἕλληνεσ ἄλλωσ μυθολογέουσιν καὶ κόλπον ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἐν τῇδε τῇ θαλάσσῃ Ἰκάριον εἰκῆ καλέουσιν. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 15:1)
  • λέγουσιν δὲ καὶ ἄλλα Ἕλληνεσ πολλὰ μυθώδεα, τοῖσι ἐγὼ οὐ μάλα τι πείθομαι. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 20:1)

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