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αἱματόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἱματόεις

Structure: αἱματοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. blood-red or of blood
  2. bloody, murderous

Declension

First/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

  • εἴθε μοι ὀμμάτων αἱματόεν βλέφαρον ἀκέσαι’ ἀκέσαιο τυφλόν, Ἅλιε, φέγγοσ ἐπαλλάξασ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric5)
  • νεφέλη δ’ ὀφρύων ὕπερ αἱματόεν ῥέθοσ αἰσχύνει, τέγγουσ’ εὐῶπα παρειάν. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode, anapests2)
  • νῦν μὲν ἐσ ἡμέασ ἐτράπεθ’, αἱματόεν δ’ ἕλκοσ ἀναστένομεν, ἐξαῦτισ δ’ ἑτέρουσ ἐπαμείψεται· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 40)
  • ἁ πάροσ αἱματόεν πολέμου μέλοσ ἐν δαῒ σάλπιγξ καὶ γλυκὺν εἰράνασ ἐκπροχέουσα νόμον, ἄγκειμαι, Φερένικε, τεὸν Τριτωνίδι κούρᾳ δῶρον, ἐριβρύχων παυσαμένα κελάδων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 1591)

Synonyms

  1. blood-red or of blood

  2. bloody

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

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