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ἀηδών

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀηδών ἀηδόνος

Structure: ἀηδων (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. 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

  • αἱ δ’ ἀηδόνεσ τοὺσ νεοσσοὺσ προδιδάσκουσιν ᾄδειν· (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 9 13:2)
  • οὕτω μὲν πίνουσιν, ἀντὶ δὲ τῶν στεφάνων αἱ ἀηδόνεσ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ μουσικὰ ὄρνεα ἐκ τῶν πλησίον λειμώνων τοῖσ στόμασιν ἀνθολογοῦντα κατανείφει αὐτοὺσ μετ’ ᾠδῆσ ὑπερπετόμενα. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 14:5)
  • πυκνόπτεροι δ’ εἴσω κατ’ αὐτὸν εὐστομοῦσ’ ἀηδόνεσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:9)
  • μὴ μ’ ἀνιᾶτε, τὸν τρυφερῇ παιδὸσ σαρκὶ χλιαινόμενον, ἑζόμεναι πετάλοισιν ἀηδόνεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1362)
  • ὁππόθι δενδρήεντα γέρων παρανήχεται Ἶρισ χῶρον, Ἁμαδρυάδων ἔνδιον ἁβροκόμων, καὶ λιπαρῆσ εὔβοτρυν ἀν’ ὀργάδα καρπὸσ ἐλαίησ θάλλει ἐρισταφύλων πάντοσε θειλοπέδων αἱ δὲ πέριξ λαλαγεῦσιν ἀηδόνεσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 668 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the songstress

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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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