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αἰνολέων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰνολέων

Structure: αἰνολεοντ (Stem)

Etym.: ai)nos + le/wn

Sense

  1. a dreadful lion

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

  • ὃσ δή τοι μυθεῖτο καὶ ἐν πλεόνεσσιν Ἐπειῶν, οὕνεκεν Ἀργείων τισ ἕθεν παρεόντοσ ὄλεσσε θηρίον, αἰνολέοντα, κακὸν τέρασ ἀγροιώταισ, κοίλην αὖλιν ἔχοντα Διὸσ Νεμέοιο παρ’ ἄλσοσ, οὐκ οἶδ’ ἀτρεκέωσ ἢ Ἄργεοσ ἐξ ἱεροῖο αὐτόθεν ἢ Τίρυνθα νέμων πόλιν ἠὲ Μυκήνην. (Theocritus, Idylls, 71)

Synonyms

  1. a dreadful lion

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

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