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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

  • καὶ νιγλάρουσ θρηνεῖν, ἐν οἷσι Λάμπροσ ἐναπέθνῃσκεν, ἄνθρωποσ ὢν ὑδατοπότησ, μινυρὸσ ὑπερσοφιστήσ, Μουσῶν σκελετόσ, ἀηδόνων ἠπίαλοσ, ὕμνοσ Αἵδου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 21 2:1)
  • ἐπειδὰν δὲ οὗτοι παύσωνται ᾄδοντεσ, δεύτεροσ χορὸσ παρέρχεται ἐκ κύκνων καὶ χελιδόνων καὶ ἀηδόνων. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 15:5)
  • ὥστε ὡρ́α ἂν εἰή κατὰ τὸν ποιητὴν μηδέποτε παύσασθαι ὀδυρομένουσ πολὺ μᾶλλον τῶν ἀηδόνων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 4:2)
  • τοιγαροῦν οὐκ ἀπὸ κύκνων οὐδὲ ἀηδόνων ὁ ζῆλοσ αὐτῶν ὠνόμασται παρ’ ὑμῖν αὐτοῖσ, ἀλλ’, ὡσ ̣̔ (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 82:2)
  • λέγουσι δὲ οἱ Θρᾷκεσ, ὅσαι τῶν ἀηδόνων ἔχουσι νεοσσιὰσ ἐπὶ τῷ τάφῳ τοῦ Ὀρφέωσ, ταύτασ ἥδιον καὶ μεῖζόν τι ᾄδειν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 10:4)

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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