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Ἡράκλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἡράκλειος Ἡράκλειᾱ Ἡράκλειον

Structure: Ἡρακλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from H(rakle/hs

Sense

  1. of Hercules, Hercules himself
  2. the temple of Hercules, Heracleum
  3. his festival

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative Ἡράκλειος Ἡρακλείᾱ Ἡράκλειον
Genitive Ἡρακλείου Ἡρακλείᾱς Ἡρακλείου
Dative Ἡρακλείῳ Ἡρακλείᾱͅ Ἡρακλείῳ
Accusative Ἡράκλειον Ἡρακλείᾱν Ἡράκλειον
Vocative Ἡράκλειε Ἡρακλείᾱ Ἡράκλειον
DualN/A/V Ἡρακλείω Ἡρακλείᾱ Ἡρακλείω
G/D Ἡρακλείοιν Ἡρακλείαιν Ἡρακλείοιν
PluralNominative Ἡράκλειοι Ἡράκλειαι Ἡράκλεια
Genitive Ἡρακλείων Ἡρακλειῶν Ἡρακλείων
Dative Ἡρακλείοις Ἡρακλείαις Ἡρακλείοις
Accusative Ἡρακλείους Ἡρακλείᾱς Ἡράκλεια
Vocative Ἡράκλειοι Ἡράκλειαι Ἡράκλεια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective Ἡράκλειος Ἡρακλείου Ἡρακλειώτερος Ἡρακλειωτέρου Ἡρακλειώτατος Ἡρακλειωτάτου
Adverb Ἡρακλείως Ἡρακλειώτερον Ἡρακλειώτατα

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

  • καὶ νῦν ἐκεῖνα μὲν θανόντ’ ἀνέπτατο, ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ σὺ μέλλομεν θνῄσκειν, γέρον, οἵ θ’ Ἡράκλειοι παῖδεσ, οὓσ ὑπὸ πτεροῖσ σῴζω νεοσσοὺσ ὄρνισ ὣσ ὑφειμένη. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. his festival

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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