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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

  • "δῆριν αἱματόεσσαν" οἱ μὲν Πυθαγορικοὶ διὰ πλειόνων ὀνομάτων κατηγοροῦσι τοῦ μὲν ἀγαθοῦ τὸ ἓν τὸ πεπερασμένον τὸ μένον τὸ εὐθὺ τὸ περισσὸν τὸ τετράγωνον τὸ ἴσον τὸ δεξιὸν τὸ λαμπρόν· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 48 4:1)
  • κρατηθεὶσ δ’ ἐκ φίλων ἀβουλιᾶν ἐγείνατο μὲν μόρον αὑτῷ, πατροκτόνον Οἰδιπόδαν, ὅστε ματρὸσ ἁγνὰν σπείρασ ἄρουραν, ἵν’ ἐτράφη, ῥίζαν αἱματόεσσαν ἔτλα· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 31)
  • ἐπεὶ πρεπόντωσ ἑλένασ, ἕλανδροσ, ἑλέ‐ πτολισ, ἐκ τῶν ἁβροτίμων προκαλυμμάτων ἔπλευσε ζεφύρου γίγαντοσ αὔρᾳ, πολύανδροί τε φεράσπιδεσ κυναγοὶ κατ’ ἴχνοσ πλατᾶν ἄφαντον κελσάντων Σιμόεντοσ ἀ‐ κτὰσ ἐπ’ ἀεξιφύλλουσ δι’ ἔριν αἱματόεσσαν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 13)

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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