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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αἵμων αί̔μονε αί̔μονες
Genitive αί̔μονος αἱμόνοιν αἱμόνων
Dative αί̔μονι αἱμόνοιν αί̔μοσιν*
Accusative αί̔μονα αί̔μονε αί̔μονας
Vocative αί̔μως αί̔μονε αί̔μονες

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

  • γάμουσ δ’ ἀδελφῆσ Ἀντιγόνησ παιδόσ τε σοῦ Αἵμονοσ, ἐάν τι τῆσ τύχησ ἐγὼ σφαλῶ, σοὶ χρὴ μέλεσθαι· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:22)
  • Αἵμονοσ μὲν οὖν γάμοι σφαγὰσ ἀπείργουσ’. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 3:2)
  • σὺ δ’ ἐκλιποῦσα τριπτύχουσ θρήνουσ νεκρῶν κόμιζε σαυτήν, Ἀντιγόνη, δόμων ἔσω καὶ παρθενεύου τὴν ἰοῦσαν ἡμέραν μένουσ’, ἐν ᾗ σε λέκτρον Αἵμονοσ μένει. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 3:6)
  • ἀλλὰ πρόσπολοι, ἴτ’ ἆσσον ὠκεῖσ καὶ παραστάντεσ τάφῳ ἀθρήσαθ’, ἁρμὸν χώματοσ λιθοσπαδῆ δύντεσ πρὸσ αὐτὸ στόμιον, εἰ τὸν Αἵμονοσ φθόγγον συνίημ’ ἢ θεοῖσι κλέπτομαι. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:15)
  • πολλῶν δὲ ἀπολομένων, καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον Αἵμονοσ τοῦ Κρέοντοσ, κηρύσσει Κρέων τῷ τὸ αἴνιγμα λύσοντι καὶ τὴν βασιλείαν καὶ τὴν Λαί̈ου δώσειν γυναῖκα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 5 8:8)

Synonyms

  1. eager

  2. bloody

Related

Similar forms

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

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