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αἰανής?

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: aianēs

Principal Part: αἰανής αἰανές

Structure: αἰανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: The prob. deriv. is from αἰεί, everlasting, whence may come the notion of neverending, wearisome, dreary.

Sense

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

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

  • 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)
  • σπασσάμενος δ ἄροτρον, βοέους δήσαις ἀνάγκας ἔντεσιν αὐχένας ἐμβάλλων τ ἐριπλεύρῳ φυᾷ κέντρον αἰανὲς βιατὰς ἐξεπόνης ἐπιτακτὸν ἀνὴρ μέτρον. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 4 72:2)
  • 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 ὁρ´ον 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

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

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