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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative Κρόνιος Κρονίᾱ Κρόνιον
Genitive Κρονίου Κρονίᾱς Κρονίου
Dative Κρονίῳ Κρονίᾱͅ Κρονίῳ
Accusative Κρόνιον Κρονίᾱν Κρόνιον
Vocative Κρόνιε Κρονίᾱ Κρόνιον
DualN/A/V Κρονίω Κρονίᾱ Κρονίω
G/D Κρονίοιν Κρονίαιν Κρονίοιν
PluralNominative Κρόνιοι Κρόνιαι Κρόνια
Genitive Κρονίων Κρονιῶν Κρονίων
Dative Κρονίοις Κρονίαις Κρονίοις
Accusative Κρονίους Κρονίᾱς Κρόνια
Vocative Κρόνιοι Κρόνιαι Κρόνια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective Κρόνιος Κρονίου Κρονιώτερος Κρονιωτέρου Κρονιώτατος Κρονιωτάτου
Adverb Κρονίως Κρονιώτερον Κρονιώτατα

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

  • ὣσ ὁ μὲν Ἑρμάωνι πατὴρ ἐπέτελλε Κρονίων· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 136)
  • τοῖσιν δ’ οὐρανόθεν μέγ’ ἐπήγαγε πῆμα Κρονίων λιμὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ λοιμόν· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 29:3)
  • τόνδε γὰρ ἀνθρώποισι νόμον διέταξε Κρονίων ἰχθύσι μὲν καὶ θηρσὶ καὶ οἰωνοῖσ πετεηνοῖσ ἐσθέμεν ἀλλήλουσ, ἐπεὶ οὐ δίκη ἐστὶ μετ’ αὐτοῖσ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 34:2)
  • ἐπειδὰν δέ ποτε διὰ μακροῦ τοῦ χρόνου Κρονίων ἢ Παναθηναίων ἐπιστάντων πέμπηταὶ τί σοι ἐφεστρίδιον ἄθλιον ἢ χιτώνιον ὑπόσαθρον, ἐνταῦθα μάλιστα πολλὴν δεῖ καὶ μεγάλην γενέσθαι τὴν πομπήν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 37:1)
  • τὴν δέ οἱ ἀθάνατον καὶ ἀγήρω θῆκε Κρονίων. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 99:2)

Synonyms

  1. his festival

  2. of the dark ages

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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