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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

  • αἳ δή τοι πίπτουσαι ἐσ ἠεροειδέα πόντον, πῆμα μέγα θνητοῖσι, κακῇ θυίουσιν ἀέλλῃ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 80:4)
  • δὴ γάρ σφεασ ἐξεσάωσεν αὐτῇσιν νήεσσι, κακῇ χρίμψαντασ ἀέλλῃ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 12:14)
  • αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐν πρώτοισι μέγα φρονέων ἐβεβήκει, ἐν δ’ ἔπεσ’ ὑσμίνῃ ὑπεραέϊ ἶσοσ ἀέλλῃ, ἥ τε καθαλλομένη ἰοειδέα πόντον ὀρίνει. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 27:3)
  • αὐτὰρ ὅ γ’ ὡσ τὸ πρόσθεν ἐμάρνατο ἶσοσ ἀέλλῃ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 12 4:4)
  • οἳ δ’ ἴσαν ἀργαλέων ἀνέμων ἀτάλαντοι ἀέλλῃ, ἥ ῥά θ’ ὑπὸ βροντῆσ πατρὸσ Διὸσ εἶσι πέδον δέ, θεσπεσίῳ δ’ ὁμάδῳ ἁλὶ μίσγεται, ἐν δέ τε πολλὰ κύματα παφλάζοντα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσησ κυρτὰ φαληριόωντα, πρὸ μέν τ’ ἄλλ’, αὐτὰρ ἐπ’ ἄλλα· (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 74:4)

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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