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αἰνός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰνός αἰνή αἰνόν

Structure: αἰν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = deino/s,

Sense

dread, dire, grim, most dread
terribly, strangely, exceedingly

Declension

First/Second declension

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	αἰνός	αἰνή	αἰνόν
	Genitive	αἰνοῦ	αἰνῆς	αἰνοῦ
	Dative	αἰνῷ	αἰνῇ	αἰνῷ
	Accusative	αἰνόν	αἰνήν	αἰνόν
	Vocative	αἰνέ	αἰνή	αἰνόν
Dual	N/A/V	αἰνώ	αἰνᾱ́	αἰνώ
Dual	G/D	αἰνοῖν	αἰναῖν	αἰνοῖν
Plural	Nominative	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

"τίνοσ ἔχεται διανοίασ τὸ τοὺσ ἀπάγοντασ εἰσ Κασσιοπαίαν τὸν βοῦν ἐξ Αἴνου τὰσ παρθένουσ προπεμπούσασ ἐπᾴδειν ἄχρι τῶν ὁρ́ων μήποτε νοστήσαιτε φίλην ἐσ πατρίδα γαῖαν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 261)
τί με χρὴ μητέροσ αἴνου; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 9:8)
πυνθανομένοισ δὲ τοῖσ ἀμφὶ τὸν Κάσσιον περὶ τῶν ὁδῶν ὁ Ῥασκούπολισ ἔφη τὴν μὲν δι’ Αἴνου καὶ Μαρωνείασ ἐπίτομόν τε καὶ συνήθη καὶ λεωφόρον οὖσαν ἐπὶ τὰ Σαπαίων στενὰ ἄγειν, κατεχόντων δὲ αὐτὰ τῶν πολεμίων ἀμήχανα ἐσ δίοδον εἶναι, τὴν δὲ περίοδον τριπλασίονά τε καὶ χαλεπήν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 11 5:3)
τῶν δὲ ἐξαιρεθέντων ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων οὐδένα βασιλεὺσ Ξέρξησ ἐνόμισε εἶναι ἄνδρα ἀγαθὸν εἰ μὴ Βόγην μοῦνον τὸν ἐξ Ηιὄνοσ, τοῦτον δὲ αἰνέων οὐκ ἐπαύετο, καὶ τοὺσ περιεόντασ αὐτοῦ ἐν Πέρσῃσι παῖδασ ἐτίμα μάλιστα, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἄξιοσ αἴνου μεγάλου ἐγένετο Βόγησ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 107 2:1)
εἶτα τοὺσ ἐπιτάξοντασ αὐτῷ τὰσ φρουρὰσ ἐξάγειν ἐξ Αἴνου καὶ Μαρωνείασ, καὶ συλλήβδην ἀποβαίνειν ἀπὸ τῶν παραθαλαττίων τῆσ Θρᾴκησ ἐρυμάτων καὶ τόπων καὶ πόλεων. (Polybius, Histories, book 22, c. olymp. 148, 2. i. res italiae 4:1)

Synonyms

terribly
- ἔκπαγλος (terribly, vehemently, exceedingly)

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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αἰνός

Sense

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Sense

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terribly

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