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αἰανής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰανής αἰανές

Structure: αἰανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: The prob. deriv. is from ai)ei/, everlasting, whence may come the notion of neverending, wearisome, dreary.

Sense

  1. dreary, dismal, direful, horrid
  2. for ever

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative αἰανής αί̓ανες
Genitive αἰανούς αἰάνους
Dative αἰανεί αἰάνει
Accusative αἰανή αί̓ανες
Vocative αἰανές αί̓ανες
DualN/A/V αἰανεί αἰάνει
G/D αἰανοίν αἰάνοιν
PluralNominative αἰανείς αἰάνη
Genitive αἰανών αἰάνων
Dative αἰανέσιν* αἰάνεσιν*
Accusative αἰανείς αἰάνη
Vocative αἰανείς αἰάνη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective αἰανής αἰανούς αἰανέστερος αἰανεστέρου αἰανέστατος αἰανεστάτου
Adverb αἰανέως αἰανέστερον αἰανέστατα

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

  • ἐξίσταται δὲ νυκτὸσ αἰανὴσ κύκλοσ τῇ λευκοπώλῳ φέγγοσ ἡμέρᾳ φλέγειν· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode15)
  • ἀπὸ γὰρ κόροσ ἀμβλύνει αἰανὴσ ταχείασ ἐλπίδασ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 29:1)
  • ὦ Πέλοποσ ἁ πρόσθεν πολύπονοσ ἱππεία, ὡσ ἔμολεσ αἰανὴσ τᾷδε γᾷ. (Sophocles, choral, epode1)
  • αὗται δ’ ἔχουσι μοῖραν οὐκ εὐπέμπελον, καὶ μὴ τυχοῦσαι πράγματοσ νικηφόρου, χώρᾳ μεταῦθισ ἰὸσ ἐκ φρονημάτων πέδοι πεσὼν ἄφερτοσ αἰανὴσ νόσοσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 3:5)
  • φλογμόσ τ’ ὀμματοστερὴσ φυτῶν, τὸ μὴ περᾶν ὁρ́ον τόπων, μηδ’ ἄκαρποσ αἰανὴσ ἐφερπέτω νόσοσ, μῆλά τ’ εὐθενοῦντα γᾶ ξὺν διπλοῖσιν ἐμβρύοισ τρέφοι χρόνῳ τεταγμένῳ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. for ever

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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