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ἀειθαλής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀειθαλής ἀειθαλές

Structure: ἀειθαλη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qa/llw

Sense

  1. ever-green

Examples

  • "ἐλαίαν δὲ καὶ δάφνην καὶ κυπάριττον ἀειθαλῆ διαφυλάσσει τὸ λιπαρὸν καὶ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 2:12)
  • καὶ κατὰ τὴν Αἰγυπτίων μὲν διάλεκτον ὀνομάζεσθαί φασι τὸν κιττὸν φυτὸν Ὀσίριδοσ, προκεκρίσθαι δὲ τῆσ ἀμπέλου τοῦτον πρὸσ τὴν ἀφιέρωσιν διὰ τὸ τὴν μὲν φυλλορροεῖν, τὸν δὲ πάντα τὸν χρόνον ἀειθαλῆ διαμένειν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 17 5:1)
  • πρὸ δὲ τῆσ εἰσόδου πεφυκέναι δένδρα θαυμαστά, τὰ μὲν κάρπιμα, τὰ δὲ ἀειθαλῆ, πρὸσ αὐτὴν μόνον τὴν ἀπὸ τῆσ θέασ τέρψιν ὑπὸ τῆσ φύσεωσ δεδημιουργημένα· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 69 2:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὰ ἀειθαλῆ φέρει· (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 4 4:3)
  • ἔστι γὰρ εὔβοτοσ ἡ χώρα καὶ εὐερνὴσ ὥστε καὶ τὰ ἀειθαλῆ τρέφειν καὶ ἄρωμα τὸ ἄμωμον· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 48:5)

Synonyms

  1. ever-green

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

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