Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὅσσαι γὰρ ῥαθάμιγγεσ ἀπέσσυθεν αἱματόεσσαι, πάσασ δέξατο Γαῖα· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 22:4)
  • βλαχαὶ δ’ αἱματόεσσαι τῶν ἐπιμαστιδίων ἀρτιτρεφεῖσ βρέμονται. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 33)

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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