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αἰθαλόεις

First/Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰθαλόεις αἰθαλόεσσα αἰθαλόεν

Structure: αἰθαλοεντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ai)/qalos

Sense

  1. smoky, sooty, that are burnt out
  2. burning

Declension

First/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

  • ἔνθα ποτ’ αἰθαλόεντι τυπεὶσ πρὸσ στέρνα κεραυνῷ ἡμιδαὴσ Φαέθων πέσεν ἁρ́ματοσ Ηἐλίοιο λίμνησ ἐσ προχοὰσ πολυβενθέοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 10:23)
  • χωρὶσ δ’ οὐδέποκ’ ἦσ, οὔτ’ εἰ μέσον ἆμαρ ὄροιτο, οὔτ’ ἄρ’ ὅχ’ ἁ λεύκιπποσ ἀνατρέχοι ἐσ Διὸσ Ἀώσ, οὐδ’ ὁπόκ’ ὀρτάλιχοι μινυροὶ ποτὶ κοῖτον ὁρῷεν, σεισαμένασ πτερὰ ματρὸσ ἐπ’ αἰθαλόεντι πετεύρῳ, ὡσ αὐτῷ κατὰ θυμὸν ὁ παῖσ πεποναμένοσ εἰή, αὐτῷ δ’ εὖ ἕλκων ἐσ ἀλαθινὸν ἄνδρ’ ἀποβαίη. (Theocritus, Idylls, 4)
  • τίσ δὲ καὶ αἰθαλόεντι ῥύπῳ πεπαλαγμένον ἄρτι, κεῖνον ἀιστώσασ, φαιδρὸν ἔδειξε δόμον; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6152)

Synonyms

  1. smoky

  2. burning

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

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