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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

  • ἀλκυόνεσ, αἳ παρ’ ἀενάοισ θαλάσσησ κύμασι στωμύλλετε, τέγγουσαι νοτίοισ πτερῶν ῥανίσι χρόα δροσιζόμεναι· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πρὸσ ὕδωρ οὔτε ποταμοῖσ ἐστιν ἀενάοισ οὔτε λίμναισ τισὶν οὔτ’ ἀφθόνοισ πηγαῖσ ἡ χώρα διαρκήσ, ἀλλ’ οἱ πλεῖστοι φρέασι ποιητοῖσ ἐχρῶντο, νόμον ἔγραψεν, ὅπου μέν ἐστι δημόσιον φρέαρ ἐντὸσ ἱππικοῦ, χρῆσθαι τούτῳ· (Plutarch, , chapter 23 5:1)
  • καὶ ξενίου Διὸσ ἀσκεῖται Θέμισ ἀενάοισ ἐν τραπέζαισ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 11 2:2)
  • "Τίσ κεν αἰνήσειε νόῳ πινυτὸσ Λίνδου ναέταν Κλεόβουλον ͅ ἀενάοισ ποταμοῖσιν ἄνθεσί τ’ εἰαρινοῖσ ͅ ἀελίου τε φλογὶ χρυσέασ τε σελάνασ ͅ καὶ θαλασσαίαισι δίναισ ἀντία θέντα μένοσ στάλασ; (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 11)
  • ἴσθι δ’ ὑπὸ χθονὸσ ὤν, ὅτι σοι κλέοσ ἄφθιτον ἔσται ἶσον Ὁμηρείαισ ἀενάοισ χάρισιν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 3)

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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