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αἵμων?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: haimōn

Principal Part: αἵμων

Structure: αἱμων (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = δαήμων,

Sense

  1. eager, skilful in
  2. bloody

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αἵμων αἵμονε αἵμονες
Genitive αἵμονος αἱμόνοιν αἱμόνων
Dative αἵμονι αἱμόνοιν αἵμοσι(ν)
Accusative αἵμονα αἵμονε αἵμονας
Vocative αἵμως αἵμονε αἵμονες

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 Λαΐου δώσειν γυναῖκα. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 5 8:8)

Synonyms

  1. eager

  2. bloody

Related

명사

형용사

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부사

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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