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αἴγλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἴγλη

Structure: αἰγλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the light of the sun, radiance, daylight
  2. any dazzling light, lustre, gleam

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αἴγλη αί̓γλᾱ αῖ̓γλαι
Genitive αί̓γλης αί̓γλαιν αἰγλῶν
Dative αί̓γλῃ αί̓γλαιν αί̓γλαις
Accusative αί̓γλην αί̓γλᾱ αί̓γλᾱς
Vocative αί̓γλη αί̓γλᾱ αῖ̓γλαι

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

  • Λύκει’ ἄναξ, τά τε σὰ χρυσοστρόφων ἀπ’ ἀγκυλᾶν βέλεα θέλοιμ’ ἂν ἀδάματ’ ἐνδατεῖσθαι ἀρωγὰ προσταχθέντα τάσ τε πυρφόρουσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ αἴγλασ, ξὺν αἷσ Λύκι’ ὄρεα διᾴσσει· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, antistrophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. the light of the sun

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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