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Ῥόδος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ῥόδος Ῥόδου

Structure: Ῥοδ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Rhodes

Declension

Second declension

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

  • εὑρήσεισ γὰρ τὸ τῶν μουσικῶν δὴ τοῦτο, δὶσ διὰ πασῶν τὸ πρᾶγμα, καὶ τοσοῦτον ἐοικότασ ἀλλήλοισ τοὺσ βίουσ, ὅσον μόλυβδοσ ἀργύρῳ καὶ χαλκὸσ χρυσῷ καὶ ἀνεμώνη ῥόδῳ καὶ ἀνθρώπῳ πίθηκοσ· (Lucian, Apologia 26:1)
  • ἐν Ῥόδῳ δ’ ἐπίδειξιν ποιούμενοσ, ὡσ οὐδεὶσ ἐπεσημήνατο, καταλιπὼν τὸ θέατρον ἐξῆλθεν εἰπὼν ’ ὅπου τὸ ἀδάπανον οὐ ποιεῖτε, πῶσ ἐγὼ ἐλπίζω παρ’ ὑμῶν ἔρανον λήψεσθαι; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 42 2:2)
  • καὶ χελιδονίζειν δὲ καλεῖται παρὰ Ῥοδίοισ ἀγερμόσ τισ ἄλλοσ, περὶ οὗ φησι Θέογνισ ἐν β’ περὶ τῶν ἐν Ῥόδῳ θυσιῶν γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 601)
  • Τιμαχίδασ δὲ ὁ ̔ Ῥόδιοσ ὑπόχυτὸν τινα οἶνον ἐν Ῥόδῳ καλεῖ παραπλήσιον τῷ γλεύκει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 57 1:6)
  • φύεται δ’ οὗτοσ ἐν λίμναισ θέρουσ ὡρ́ᾳ, καὶ εἰσὶν αὐτοῦ χροιαὶ δύο, ἡ μὲν τῷ ῥόδῳ ἐοικυῖα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 212)

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

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