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ἄελλα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄελλα ἄελλας

Structure: ἀελλ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: ei)/lw

Sense

  1. a stormy wind, whirlwind, eddy
  2. whirling motion

Declension

First 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

  • Τρῶα δὲ πένθοσ ἄλαστον ἔχε φρένασ, οὐδέ τι ᾔδει, ὅππη οἱ φίλον υἱὸν ἀνήρπασε θέσπισ ἀέλλα· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 22:2)
  • πρώτη μὲν γὰρ αὐτῷ συνάψασα μάχην Αἔλλα, διὰ τὸ τάχοσ ταύτησ τετευχυῖα τῆσ προσηγορίασ, ὀξύτερον εὑρ͂εν αὑτῆσ τὸν ἀντιταχθέντα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 16 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. whirling motion

Related

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

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