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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

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

  • δεινὸσ γάρ μὲν ἔτειρεν ἔρωσ Πανοπηί̈δοσ Αἴγλησ. (Plutarch, chapter 20 1:3)
  • καὶ διὰ τὸν Αἴγλησ ἔρωτα τῆσ Πανοπέωσ, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, τὴν Ἀριάδνησ ἀπόλειψιν αἰτιῶνται μὴ καλὴν γενέσθαι μηδὲ πρέπουσαν· (Plutarch, chapter 29 2:1)
  • ἧσ ἄπο αἴγλη γαῖαν ἑλίσσεται οὐρανόδεικτοσ κρατὸσ ἀπ’ ἀθανάτοιο, πολὺσ δ’ ὑπὸ κόσμοσ ὄρωρεν αἴγλησ λαμπούσησ· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:2)
  • τοὶ δ’ ἀγλαὸν Ἀπόλλωνι ἄλσει ἐνὶ σκιερῷ τέμενοσ σκιόεντά τε βωμὸν ποίεον, Αἰγλήτην μὲν ἐυσκόπου εἵνεκεν αἴγλησ Φοῖβον κεκλόμενοι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 27:36)
  • Ἀντίμαχοσ δὲ οὔτε ἀριθμὸν Χαρίτων οὔτε ὀνόματα εἰπὼν Αἴγλησ εἶναι θυγατέρασ καὶ Ἡλίου φησὶν αὐτάσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , other93)

Synonyms

  1. the light of the sun

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

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