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ἄγνος

Second declension Noun; Feminine 식물 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγνος ἄγνου

Structure: ἀγν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = lu/gos

Sense

  1. chaste tree, Vitex agnus-castus
  2. type of fish
  3. type of bird

Declension

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

  • ἐν ἁγνῷ δ’ ἑσμὸσ ὡσ πελειάδων ἵζεσθε κίρκων τῶν ὁμοπτέρων φόβῳ, ἐχθρῶν ὁμαίμων καὶ μιαινόντων γένοσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 2:16)
  • ἰδόντοσ δὲ τοῦ ἡνιόχου ἡ μνήμη πρὸσ τὴν τοῦ κάλλουσ φύσιν ἠνέχθη, καὶ πάλιν εἶδεν αὐτὴν μετὰ σωφροσύνησ ἐν ἁγνῷ βάθρῳ βεβῶσαν· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 188:3)
  • Νέδα μὲν Δία φέρουσά ἐστι νήπιον παῖδα, Ἀνθρακία δὲ νύμφη τῶν Ἀρκαδικῶν καὶ αὕτη δᾷδα ἔχουσά ἐστιν, Ἁγνὼ δὲ τῇ μὲν ὑδρίαν, ἐν δὲ τῇ ἑτέρᾳ χειρὶ φιάλην· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 5:2)
  • ταῖσ Νύμφαισ δὲ ὀνόματα, ὑφ’ ὧν τὸν Δία τραφῆναι λέγουσι, τίθενται Θεισόαν καὶ Νέδαν καὶ Ἁγνώ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 38 6:1)
  • εἰργασμέναι δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ βωμῷ Ῥέα μὲν καὶ Οἰνόη νύμφη παῖδα ἔτι νήπιον Δία ἔχουσιν, ἑκατέρωθεν δέ εἰσι τέσσαρεσ ἀριθμόν, Γλαύκη καὶ Νέδα καὶ Θεισόα καὶ Ἀνθρακία, τῇ δὲ Ἴδη καὶ Ἁγνὼ καὶ Ἀλκινόη τε καὶ Φρίξα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 47 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. chaste tree

  2. type of fish

  3. type of bird

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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