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ἀήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀήρ ἀέρος

Structure: ἀηρ (Stem)

Etym.: a)/hmi

Sense

  1. mist
  2. air
  3. wind
  4. space, volume
  5. blue or grey (the colour of the sky)

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

  • ἤδη δὲ καὶ ἔθνη ὅλα μακροβιώτατα, ὥσπερ Σῆρασ μὲν ἱστοροῦσι μέχρι τριακοσίων ζῆν ἐτῶν, οἱ μὲν τῷ ἀέρι, οἱ δὲ τῇ γῇ τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ μακροῦ γήρωσ προστιθέντεσ, οἱ δὲ καὶ τῇ διαίτῃ· (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 5:1)
  • λόγων δὲ παρακέλευσμα σῶν ἀέρι φερόμενον οἴχεται. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 35)
  • ἀέρι δὲ ἱστία πρότονοι κατὰ πρῷραν ὑ‐ πὲρ στόλον ἐκπετάσουσι πόδα ναὸσ ὠκυπόμπου. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 24)
  • ὁ γὰρ μακάριοσ ‐ κοὐκ ὀνειδίζω τύχασ ‐ Διὸσ πεφυκώσ, ὡσ λέγουσι, Τάνταλοσ κορυφῆσ ὑπερτέλλοντα δειμαίνων πέτρον ἀέρι ποτᾶται· (Euripides, episode 1:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀνάγεται τὸ ποτιμώτερον καὶ τοῦτο κεκομμένον ἐστὶ τῷ ἀέρι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 16 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. mist

  2. air

  3. wind

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