Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτε τυφομένησ ὕλησ ὕπερ αἰθαλόεσσαι καπνοῖο στροφάλιγγεσ ἀπείριτοι εἱλίσσονται, ἄλλη δ’ αἶψ’ ἑτέρῃ ἐπιτέλλεται αἰὲν ἐπιπρὸ νειόθεν εἰλίγγοισιν ἐπήοροσ ἐξανιοῦσα· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 3:11)

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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