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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

  • ὦ πόνοσ ἐγγενὴσ καὶ παράμουσοσ Ἄτασ αἱματόεσσα πλαγά. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, strophe 111)
  • ὑπαὶ δέ οἱ ἔσκε τένοντοσ σύριγξ αἱματόεσσα κατὰ σφυρόν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 26:24)
  • σμῶδιξ δ’ αἱματόεσσα μεταφρένου ἐξυπανέστη σκήπτρου ὕπο χρυσέου· (Homer, Iliad, Book 2 25:3)
  • αἱματόεσσα δὲ χεὶρ πεδίῳ πέσε· (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 10:2)

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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