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Ὠρίων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὠρίων Ὠρίωνος

Structure: Ὠριων (Stem)

Sense

  1. Orion
  2. a bright constellation

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

  • καὶ γὰρ ἄλλοι λεχθέντεσ ἅψασθαι γάμων θείων καὶ θεοῖσ ἐράσμιοι γενέσθαι, Πηλεῖσ καὶ Ἀγχῖσαι καὶ Ὠρίωνεσ καὶ Ἠμαθίωνεσ, οὐ πάντωσ ἀγαπητῶσ οὐδ’ ἀλύπωσ διεβίωσαν. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 9 1:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἄλλοι λεχθέντεσ ἅψασθαι γάμων θείων καὶ θεοῖσ ἐράσμιοι γενέσθαι, Πηλεῖσ καὶ Ἀγχῖσαι καὶ Ὠρίωνεσ καὶ Ἠμαθίωνεσ, οὐ πάντωσ; (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 9 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bright constellation

Related

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

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