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ἀέναος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀέναος

Structure: ἀενα (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)e/nnaos is a corrupt form

Sense

  1. ever-flowing
  2. everlasting

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἀέναοι Νεφέλαι ἀρθῶμεν φανεραὶ δροσερὰν φύσιν εὐάγητον, πατρὸσ ἀπ’ Ὠκεανοῦ βαρυαχέοσ ὑψηλῶν ὀρέων κορυφὰσ ἐπὶ δενδροκόμουσ, ἵνα τηλεφανεῖσ σκοπιὰσ ἀφορώμεθα, καρπούσ τ’ ἀρδομέναν ἱερὰν χθόνα, καὶ ποταμῶν ζαθέων κελαδήματα, καὶ πόντον κελάδοντα βαρύβρομον· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, strophe 11)
  • αἱ δ’ ὑπὸ τῇσιν ἀέναοι κρῆναι πίσυρεσ ῥέον, ἃσ ἐλάχηνεν Ἥφαιστοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 4:34)
  • ὁ δὲ Εὐφράτησ μετέωρόσ τε ῥεῖ καὶ ἰσοχείλησ πανταχῇ τῇ γῇ, καὶ διώρυχεσ δὲ πολλαὶ ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ πεποίηνται, αἱ μὲν ἀέναοι, ἀφ̓ ὧν ὑδρεύονται οἱ παῤ ἑκάτερα ᾠκισμένοι, τὰσ δὲ καὶ πρὸσ καιρὸν ποιοῦνται, ὁπότε σφίσιν ὕδατοσ ἐνδεῶσ ἔχοι, ἐσ τὸ ἐπάρδειν τὴν χώραν· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 7 5:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ἀέναοι ποταμοὶ τῶν χειμάρρων οὐδὲν ἀλλοιότερον διετέθησαν, μᾶλλον δὲ τοῖσ χειμάρροισ εἰσ τοὐναντίον περιέστησαν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 38:17)

Synonyms

  1. ever-flowing

  2. everlasting

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

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