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αἰνός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰνός αἰνή αἰνόν

Structure: αἰν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = deino/s,

Sense

  1. dread, dire, grim, most dread
  2. terribly, strangely, exceedingly

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative αἰνός αἰνή αἰνόν
Genitive αἰνοῦ αἰνῆς αἰνοῦ
Dative αἰνῷ αἰνῇ αἰνῷ
Accusative αἰνόν αἰνήν αἰνόν
Vocative αἰνέ αἰνή αἰνόν
DualN/A/V αἰνώ αἰνᾱ́ αἰνώ
G/D αἰνοῖν αἰναῖν αἰνοῖν
PluralNominative αἰνοί αἰναί αἰνά
Genitive αἰνῶν αἰνῶν αἰνῶν
Dative αἰνοῖς αἰναῖς αἰνοῖς
Accusative αἰνούς αἰνᾱ́ς αἰνά
Vocative αἰνοί αἰναί αἰνά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective αἰνός αἰνοῦ αἰνότερος αἰνοτεροῦ αἰνότατος αἰνοτατοῦ
Adverb αἰνώς αἰνότερον αἰνότατα

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

  • κνίσεν τε Μίνωϊ κέαρ ἱμεράμπυκοσ θεᾶσ Κύπριδοσ αἰνὰ δῶρα· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 1:3)
  • γίγνετο δ’ αἰεὶ θηρί’ ὅσ1’ ἤπειροσ αἰνὰ τρέφει, ὄφρα φύγοι νιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 10 2:4)
  • αἰνὰ μὲν ἔνθεν ὁδοῖο, τὰ δ’ αἰνότερ’ ἔνθεν ὁδοῖο. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 24:5)
  • αἰνὰ φύσισ. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, epode5)
  • δὴ γάρ που κἀκεῖνα θεὰ τρέφεν αἰνὰ πέλωρα Ἥρη, Ζηνὸσ ἄκοιτισ, ἀέθλιον Ἡρακλῆι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 17:17)
  • ὅσσα δὲ μὴ πεφίληκε Ζεύσ, ἀτύζονται βοὰν Πιερίδων ἀί̈οντα, γᾶν τε καὶ πόντον κατ’ ἀμαιμάκετον, ὅσ τ’ ἐν αἰνᾷ Ταρτάρῳ κεῖται, θεῶν πολέμιοσ, Τυφὼσ ἑκατοντακάρανοσ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 1 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. terribly

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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