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αἵμων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἵμων

Structure: αἱμων (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = dah/mwn,

Sense

  1. eager, skilful in
  2. bloody

Declension

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

  • εἶδον γὰρ βαλιὰν ἔλαφον λύκου αἵμονι χαλᾷ σφαζομέναν, ἀπ’ ἐμῶν γονάτων σπασθεῖσαν ἀνοίκτωσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests 1:8)
  • ἀρχὰσ τῆσδε γῆσ ἔδωκέ μοι Ἐτεοκλέησ παῖσ σόσ, γάμων φερνὰσ διδοὺσ Αἵμονι κόρησ τε λέκτρον Ἀντιγόνησ σέθεν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 1:5)
  • ἔνιοι δὲ διελόντεσ δίχα τὴν μὲν πρὸσ νότον λαχεῖν φασι Δευκαλίωνι καὶ καλέσαι Πανδώραν ἀπὸ τῆσ μητρόσ, τὴν δ’ ἑτέραν Αἵμονι, ἀφ’ οὗ Αἱμονίαν λεχθῆναι· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 33:2)

Synonyms

  1. eager

  2. bloody

Related

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

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