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ἄησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄησις

Structure: ἀησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/hmi

Sense

  1. a blowing

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

  • καί τε δι’ αἶγα ἀήσι τανύτριχα· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 59:7)
  • ὅστε ἀρυσάμενοσ ποταμῶν ἄπο αἰεναόντων, ὑψοῦ ὑπὲρ γαίησ ἀρθεὶσ ἀνέμοιο θυέλλῃ ἄλλοτε μέν θ’ ὑεί ποτὶ ἕσπερον, ἄλλοτ’ ἀήσι πυκνὰ Θρηικίου Βορέου νέφεα κλονέοντοσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 61:8)

Synonyms

  1. a blowing

Similar forms

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

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