Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

αἰνικτήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰνικτήριος αἰνικτήριη αἰνικτήριον

Structure: αἰνικτηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ai)ni/ssomai

Sense

  1. in riddles

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἦλθεσ πρὸσ Μολοσσὰ γάπεδα, τὴν αἰπύνωτόν τ’ ἀμφὶ Δωδώνην, ἵνα μαντεῖα θᾶκόσ τ’ ἐστὶ Θεσπρωτοῦ Διόσ, τέρασ τ’ ἄπιστον, αἱ προσήγοροι δρύεσ, ὑφ’ ὧν σὺ λαμπρῶσ κοὐδὲν αἰνικτηρίωσ προσηγορεύθησ ἡ Διὸσ κλεινὴ δάμαρ μέλλουσ’ ἔσεσθαι. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric 9:1)
  • καὶ ταῦτα μέντοι μηδὲν αἰνικτηρίωσ, ἀλλ’ αὔθ’ ἕκαστα φράζε· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. in riddles

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

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