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Τρίτων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τρίτων Τρίτωνος

Structure: Τριτων (Stem)

Sense

  1. Triton, Tritons

Declension

Third 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

  • οὐκοῦν ἐγχέω Τρίτωνα; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 28 2:2)
  • ὀθόνην ἄχρισ ἐπὶ Τρίτωνα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 172)
  • φερομένου μὲν γὰρ ὑπὸ τῶν Κουρήτων αὐτοῦ νηπίου φασὶν ἀποπεσεῖν τὸν ὀμφαλὸν περὶ τὸν ποταμὸν τὸν καλούμενον Τρίτωνα, καὶ τὸ χωρίον τε τοῦτο καθιερωθὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ τότε συμβάντοσ Ὀμφαλὸν προσαγορευθῆναι καὶ τὸ περικείμενον πεδίον ὁμοίωσ Ὀμφάλειον. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 70 4:1)
  • καί οἱ ἀπορέοντι τὴν ἐξαγωγὴν λόγοσ ἐστὶ φανῆναι Τρίτωνα καὶ κελεύειν τὸν Ιἤσονα ἑωυτῷ δοῦναι τὸν τρίποδα, φάμενόν σφι καὶ τὸν πόρον δέξειν καὶ ἀπήμονασ ἀποστελέειν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 179 3:3)
  • ὁ μὲν δὴ σεμνότεροσ ἐσ αὐτὸν λόγοσ τὰσ γυναῖκάσ φησι τὰσ Ταναγραίων πρὸ τῶν Διονύσου ὀργίων ἐπὶ θάλασσαν καταβῆναι καθαρσίων ἕνεκα, νηχομέναισ δὲ ἐπιχειρῆσαι τὸν Τρίτωνα καὶ τὰσ γυναῖκασ εὔξασθαι Διόνυσόν σφισιν ἀφικέσθαι βοηθόν, ὑπακοῦσαί τε δὴ τὸν θεὸν καὶ τοῦ Τρίτωνοσ κρατῆσαι τῇ μάχῃ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 7:2)
  • πειθομένου δὲ τοῦ Ιἤσονοσ, οὕτω δὴ τόν τε διέκπλοον τῶν βραχέων δεικνύναι τὸν Τρίτωνά σφι καὶ τὸν τρίποδα θεῖναι ἐν τῷ ἑωυτοῦ ἱρῷ, ἐπιθεσπίσαντά τε τῷ τρίποδι καὶ τοῖσι σὺν Ιἤσονι σημήναντα τὸν πάντα λόγον, ὡσ ἐπεὰν τὸν τρίποδα κομίσηται τῶν ἐκγόνων τισ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἀργοῖ συμπλεόντων, τότε ἑκατὸν πόλιασ οἰκῆσαι περὶ τὴν Τριτωνίδα λίμνην Ἑλληνίδασ πᾶσαν εἶναι ἀνάγκην. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 179 4:1)

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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