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Τρίτων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τρίτων Τρίτωνος

Structure: Τριτων (Stem)

Sense

  1. Triton, Tritons

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Τρίτων Τρίτωνε Τρίτωνες
Genitive Τρίτωνος Τριτώνοιν Τριτώνων
Dative Τρίτωνι Τριτώνοιν Τρίτωσιν*
Accusative Τρίτωνα Τρίτωνε Τρίτωνας
Vocative Τρίτων Τρίτωνε Τρίτωνες

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

  • τὴν μὲν ἔτικτε πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε πὰρ κορυφὴν Τρίτωνοσ ἐπ’ ὄχθῃσιν ποταμοῖο. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 92:7)
  • ἡ δὲ Φαληρικὴ ἦλθ’ ἀφύη, Τρίτωνοσ ἑταίρη, ἄντα παρειάων σχομένη ῥυπαρὰ κρήδεμνα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 6:4)
  • ἀλλ’ εἴτε χώρασ ἐν τόποισ Λιβυστικοῖσ, Τρίτωνοσ ἀμφὶ χεῦμα γενεθλίου πόρου, τίθησιν ὀρθὸν ἢ κατηρεφῆ πόδα, φίλοισ ἀρήγουσ’, εἴτε Φλεγραίαν πλάκα θρασὺσ ταγοῦχοσ ὡσ ἀνὴρ ἐπισκοπεῖ, ἔλθοι ‐ κλύει δὲ καὶ πρόσωθεν ὢν θεόσ ‐ ὅπωσ γένοιτο τῶνδ’ ἐμοὶ λυτήριοσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode, lyric 2:3)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὁ τῆσ γεννήσεωσ ἐνέστη χρόνοσ, πλήξαντοσ αὐτοῦ τὴν κεφαλὴν πελέκει Προμηθέωσ ἢ καθάπερ ἄλλοι λέγουσιν Ἡφαίστου, ἐκ κορυφῆσ, ἐπὶ ποταμοῦ Τρίτωνοσ, Ἀθηνᾶ σὺν ὅπλοισ ἀνέθορεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 3 6:3)
  • ἀλλά σφεασ ἐλέηραν ἀμηχανίῃ μινύθοντασ ἡρῷσσαι, Λιβύησ τιμήοροι, αἵ ποτ’ Ἰλθήνην, ἦμοσ ὅτ’ ἐκ πατρὸσ κεφαλῆσ θόρε παμφαίνουσα, ἀντόμεναι Τρίτωνοσ ἐφ’ ὕδασι χυτλώσαντο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 20:44)

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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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