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ἀηδών?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: aēdōn

Principal Part: ἀηδών ἀηδόνος

Structure: ἀηδων (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the songstress, the nightingale

Declension

Third 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

  • 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

  1. the songstress

Related

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

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