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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ἕλλην Έ̔λληνε Έ̔λληνες
Genitive Έ̔λληνος Ἑλλήνοιν Ἑλλήνων
Dative Έ̔λληνι Ἑλλήνοιν Έ̔λλησιν*
Accusative Έ̔λληνα Έ̔λληνε Έ̔λληνας
Vocative Έ̔λλην Έ̔λληνε Έ̔λληνες

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

  • θαυμάστ’ ἔλεξασ τὸν μανένθ’, ὅστισ ποτὲ Ἕλληνοσ ἐκ γῆσ πόντον ἦλθεν ἄξενον. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 5:10)
  • ποίασ πολίτησ πατρίδοσ Ἕλληνοσ γεγώσ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 2:4)
  • ὡσ ἔγωγε πολὺ ἥδιον ἂν μοι δοκῶ μονομαχῶν ἡττηθεὶσ ἀποτμηθῆναι τὴν δεξιάν, ὅπερ ἥττησ Σκυθικῆσ ἐπιτίμιόν ἐστιν, ἢ χείρων ἄλλου κατὰ φιλίαν κεκρίσθαι, καὶ ταῦτα Ἕλληνοσ, Σκύθησ αὐτὸσ ὤν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 10:4)
  • τοῦτό σοι ἔργον φίλου Ἕλληνοσ οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ γενόμενον· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 18:9)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐχ ὑπὲρ Φιλίππου καὶ ὧν ἐκεῖνοσ πράττει νῦν, οὐχ οὕτωσ ἔχουσιν, οὐ μόνον οὐχ Ἕλληνοσ ὄντοσ οὐδὲ προσήκοντοσ οὐδὲν τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ βαρβάρου ἐντεῦθεν ὅθεν καλὸν εἰπεῖν, ἀλλ’ ὀλέθρου Μακεδόνοσ, ὅθεν οὐδ’ ἀνδράποδον σπουδαῖον οὐδὲν ἦν πρότερον πρίασθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 36:2)

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