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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

αἰνούμενοι γὰρ οἱ ἀγαθοὶ τρόπον τινὰ μισοῦσι τοὺσ αἰνοῦντασ, ἢν αἰνῶσ’ ἄγαν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 2:20)
αἰνῶσ γὰρ Δαναῶν πέρι δείδια, οὐδέ μοι ἦτορ ἔμπεδον, ἀλλ’ ἀλαλύκτημαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 3:2)
οὐ νέμεσισ Τρῶασ καὶ ἐυκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιοὺσ τοιῇδ’ ἀμφὶ γυναικὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγεα πάσχειν αἰνῶσ ἀθανάτῃσι θεῇσ1’ εἰσ ὦπα ἐοίκεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 13 2:1)
καὶ οἱ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ δὲ δημογέροντεσ θαυμάζοντεσ τῆσ Ἑλένησ τὸ κάλλοσ φασίν ου’ νέμεσισ Τρῶασ καὶ ἐυκνήμιδασ Ἀχαιοὺσ τοιῇδ’ ἀμφὶ γυναικὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγεα πάσχειν αἰνῶσ ἀθανάτῃσι θεῇσ εἰσ ὦπα ἐοίκεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 20 2:4)
ἀπορεῖσθαι κέχρηται ὣσ ἔφαθ’ , ἡ δ’ ἀλύουσ1’ ἀπεβήσετο, τείρετο δ’ αἰνῶσ ποτὲ δ’ ἀντὶ τοῦ γαυριᾶν καὶ χαίρειν ἦ ἀλύεισ ὅτι Ἶρον ἐνίκησασ τὸν ἀλήτην; (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 6 7:1)

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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Sense

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terribly

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