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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

  • πάρεστι δὲ πάσαισ πύλαισ τὴν ἡδονὴν καταδέχεσθαι, τοῦτο μὲν δι’ ὀφθαλμῶν, τοῦτο δὲ δι’ ὤτων τε καὶ ῥινῶν, τοῦτο δὲ καὶ διὰ λαιμοῦ καὶ δι’ ἀφροδισίων ὑφ’ ἧσ δὴ ῥεούσησ ἀενάῳ τε καὶ θολερῷ ῥεύματι πᾶσαι μὲν ἀνευρύνονται ὁδοί· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 16:2)
  • οἱο͂́ν τοι τὸν Ἄδωνιν ἀπ’ ἀενάω Ἀχέροντοσ μηνὶ δυωδεκάτῳ μαλακαὶ πόδασ ἄγαγον ͂̔Ωραι. (Theocritus, Idylls, 130)
  • ἤθελον οὐ χρυσόν τε καὶ ἄστεα μυρία γαίησ, οὐδ’ ὅσα τὰσ Θήβασ εἶπεν Ὅμηροσ ἔχειν ἀλλ’ ἵνα μοι τροχόεσσα κύλιξ βλύσσειε Λυαίῳ, χείλεοσ ἀενάῳ νάματι λουομένου, καὶ γεραρῶν συνέπινε λάλοσ χορόσ, οἱ δὲ περισσοὶ ἀνέρεσ ἐργατίναι κάμνον ἐφ’ ἡμερίσιν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 581)

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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