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Παιάν

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Παιάν Παιᾶνος

Structure: Παιαν (Stem)

Sense

  1. Paean or Paeon, Paeon
  2. a physician, healer, a saviour, deliverer
  3. a paean, a choral song, a hymn or chant
  4. a song of triumph, a war-song
  5. any solemn song or chant
  6. paean-singers
  7. a paeon

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Παιάν Παιάνε Παιάνες
Genitive Παιάνος Παιάνοιν Παιάνων
Dative Παιάνι Παιάνοιν Παιᾶσιν*
Accusative Παιάνα Παιάνε Παιάνας
Vocative Παιάν Παιάνε Παιάνες

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 περὶ τὸν Νικάνορα μετὰ σαλπίγγων καὶ παιάνων προσῆγον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:25)
  • μῶν, Φοῖβε Παιάν, σὸν γεραίρουσιν σέβασ; (Lucian, 19)
  • ἰὼ ἰὼ Παιὰν Παιάν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, antistrophe 1:10)
  • ἀντιψάλμουσ ᾠδὰσ ὕμνων τ’ Ἀσιητᾶν σοι βάρβαρον ἀχὰν δεσποίνᾳ γ’ ἐξαυδάσω, τὰν ἐν θρήνοισιν μοῦσαν νέκυσι μελομέναν, τὰν ἐν μολπαῖσ Αἵδασ ὑμνεῖ δίχα παιάνων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 2:1)
  • τί παιᾶν’ ἐμὸν στενάζεισ; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, strophe 13)
  • ‐ ὦναξ Παιάν, ἀπότροποσ γένοιό μοι πημάτων. (Euripides, Heracles, episode4)

Synonyms

  1. Paean or Paeon

  2. a physician

  3. a paean

  4. paean-singers

  5. a paeon

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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