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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

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

  • ἐπὶ πᾶσι τούτοισ τὸ περίδειπνον, καὶ πάρεισιν οἱ προσήκοντεσ καὶ τοὺσ γονέασ παραμυθοῦνται τοῦ τετελευτηκότοσ καὶ πείθουσι γεύσασθαι, οὐκ ἀηδῶσ μὰ Δία οὐδ’ αὐτοὺσ ἀναγκαζομένουσ, ἀλλὰ ἤδη ὑπὸ λιμοῦ τριῶν ἑξῆσ ἡμερῶν ἀπηυδηκότασ. (Lucian, (no name) 22:1)
  • ἢν μὲν γὰρ ζηλότυπον αὐτὸν ὄντα ἴδωσι, Διένευσε, φασί, τῇ γυναικί σου παρὰ τὸ δεῖπνον καὶ ἀπιδὼν ἐσ αὐτὴν ἐστέναξε, καὶ ἡ Στρατονίκη πρὸσ αὐτὸν οὐ μάλα ἀηδῶσ· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 14:2)
  • ἀλλὰ πολλοὶ τῶν εἰσ τὸν βίον τοῦτον ἐμπεπτωκότων ἐξηγόρευον πρόσ με, οἱ μὲν ἔτι ἐν τῷ κακῷ ὄντεσ, ἀποδυρόμενοι ὁπόσα καὶ ὁποῖα ἔπασχον, οἱ δὲ ὥσπερ ἐκ δεσμωτηρίου τινὸσ ἀποδράντεσ οὐκ ἀηδῶσ μνημονεύοντεσ ὧν ἐπεπόνθεσαν ἀλλὰ γὰρ εὐφραίνοντο ἀναλογιζόμενοι οἱών ἀπηλλάγησαν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 1:5)
  • Ἑρμόλαον τὸν πάνυ πλούσιον ἄτεκνον ὄντα ἐθεράπευον ἐπὶ θανάτῳ, κἀκεῖνοσ οὐκ ἀηδῶσ τὴν θεραπείαν προσίετο. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7)
  • Οὐκ ἀηδῶσ, ὦ Μένιππε· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. the songstress

Related

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

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