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ἀηδών

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀηδών ἀηδόνος

Structure: ἀηδων (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

the songstress, the nightingale

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἀηδών	ἀηδόνε	ἀηδόνες
Genitive	ἀηδόνος	ἀηδόνοιν	ἀηδόνων
Dative	ἀηδόνι	ἀηδόνοιν	ἀηδόσιν*
Accusative	ἀηδόνα	ἀηδόνε	ἀηδόνας
Vocative	ἀηδώς	ἀηδόνε	ἀηδόνες

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

καὶ εἲ γέ τισ παραστησάμενοσ τὴν ἀηδόνα ἢ τὸν κύκνον ᾄδειν κελεύοι, μεταξὺ δὲ ᾀδόντων παραδείξειε τὸν ταὼ σιωπῶντα, εὖ οἶδ’ ὅτι . (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 19:7)
ὧδ’ ἴρηξ προσέειπεν ἀηδόνα ποικιλόδειρον ὕψι μάλ’ ἐν νεφέεσσι φέρων ὀνύχεσσι μεμαρπώσ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 24:2)
νῦν δὲ θᾶττον ἂν γὺψ ἀηδόνα μιμήσαιτο ἢ οὗτοι φιλοσόφουσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 37:10)
σὲ τὰν ἐναύλοισ ὑπὸ δενδροκόμοισ μουσεῖα καὶ θάκουσ ἐνί‐ ζουσαν ἀναβοάσω, σὲ τὰν ἀοιδοτάταν ὄρνιθα μελῳδὸν ἀηδόνα δακρυόεσσαν, ἔλθ’ ὦ διὰ ξουθᾶν γενύων ἐλελιζομένα θρήνων ἐμοὶ ξυνεργόσ, Ἑλένασ μελέασ πόνουσ τὸν Ἰλιάδων τ’ ἀει δούσᾳ δακρυόεντα πότμον Ἀχαιῶν ὑπὸ λόγχαισ· (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 11)
δευρὶ γὰρ ἐσβὰσ αὐτίκα μάλ’ ἐσ τὴν λόχμην, ἔπειτ’ ἀνεγείρασ τὴν ἐμὴν ἀηδόνα, καλοῦμεν αὐτούσ· (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 5:39)
Σὺ οὖν οὐδὲ τὰ ἄλλα πιστεύεισ οὕτω γενέσθαι, ὁπόταν ἀκούσῃσ ὅτι ὄρνεα ἐκ γυναικῶν ἐγένοντό τινεσ ἢ δένδρα ἢ θηρία, τὴν Αἠδόνα ἢ τὴν Δάφνην ἢ τὴν τοῦ Λυκάονοσ θυγατέρα; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 6:1)

Synonyms

the songstress
- ἀηδονίς (a nightingale)
- φιλομήλα (the nightingale)

ἀηδώ ()
πρεσβυτικός (like an old man)
ἀναφρόδιτος (without the favour of Venus)
φοβητέος (one must fear)
ἀπαρρησίαστος (not speaking freely)
ἀπόσιτος (abstaining from food)
δόξασμα (an opinion)
ἀναίσθητος (insensate)
λαμυρός (gluttonous)
φιλομάθεια (love of learning)
ζηλότυπος (jealous)
πηνίκα (at what point of time? at what hour?)
δοξάριον (Diminutive of δόξα ‎)
δοξοκόπος (thirsting for popularity)
αὐτοπάθεια (one's own feeling or experience)
πυρέσσω (I am feverish)
ψίθυρος (whispering)
λαγνεία (lasciviousness)
ἡδέως ()
πάμμεγας (very great)
κλάω (to break)
δύσφημος (of ill omen)
συντεταμένως (earnestly)
ζωτικός (full of life)
δανειστικός (of or for money-lending)
δυσθέατος (ill to look on)
ἀστένακτος (without sigh or groan)
μεθημερινός (happening by day)
οἰνόμελι (honey mixed with wine)
ἀγελαστί (without laughter)

Similar forms

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

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the songstress

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Sense

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the songstress

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