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αἶνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἶνος αἴνου

Structure: αἰν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. ai)ne/w

Sense

  1. tale or story; story with a moral, fable
  2. praise

Declension

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

  • "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

  1. tale or story

  2. praise

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