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Κρόνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κρόνιος Κρόνιᾱ Κρόνιον

Structure: Κρονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Kro/nos

Sense

  1. Saturnian, of Cronus or Saturn
  2. his festival, Saturnalia;, of the Saturnalia
  3. the hill of Cronus or Saturn
  4. of the dark ages

Examples

  • Λουκιανὸσ Κρονίῳ εὖ πράττειν. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name)1)
  • ἅ τοι Ποσειδάωνι μιχθεῖσα Κρονίῳ λέγεται παῖδα ἰόπλοκον Εὐάδναν τεκέμεν. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 9:1)
  • Ζεύσ Πίσησ μεδέων, Πειθήνορα, δεύτερον υἱᾶ Κύπριδοσ, αἰπεινῷ στέψον ὑπὸ Κρονίῳ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 641)

Synonyms

  1. his festival

  2. of the dark ages

Related

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

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