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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

  • κὰδ δ’ ἄρ’ ἀπ’ οὐρανόθεν ψιάδασ βάλεν αἱματοέσσασ, σῆμα τιθεὶσ πολέμοιο ἑῷ μεγαθαρσέι παιδί. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 35:10)
  • αἱματοέσσασ δὲ ψιάδασ κατέχευεν ἔραζε παῖδα φίλον τιμῶν, τόν οἱ Πάτροκλοσ ἔμελλε φθίσειν ἐν Τροίῃ ἐριβώλακι τηλόθι πάτρησ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 36:2)

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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