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ἀέριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀέριος ἀέριη ἀέριον

Structure: ἀερι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)h/r

Sense

  1. in the mist or thick air of morning
  2. in the air, high in air

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ ποικιλίᾳ πραπίδων δεινὰ μὲν φῦλα πόντου χθονίων τ̓ ἀερίων τε δάμναται βουλεύματα. (Plutarch, De fortuna, chapter, section 3 9:3)
  • χθονίων τ’ ἀερίων τε δάμναται βουλεύματα. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 1 9:1)
  • καθ’ ἕκαστον γὰρ εἶδοσ δένδρου παραβολὴν εἶπεν ἀπὸ ὑσσώπου ἑώσ κέδρου, τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τρόπον καὶ περὶ κτηνῶν καὶ τῶν ἐπιγείων ἁπάντων ζῴων καὶ τῶν νηκτῶν καὶ τῶν ἀερίων· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 56:2)

Synonyms

  1. in the air

Related

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

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