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

  • ὃ δ’ οὐρανῷ ἐμβασιλεύει, αὐτὸσ ἔχων βροντὴν ἠδ’ αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνόν, κάρτει νικήσασ πατέρα Κρόνον· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 9:6)
  • οἳ οἱ ἀπεμνήσαντο χάριν ἐυεργεσιάων, δῶκαν δὲ βροντὴν ἠδ’ αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνὸν καὶ στεροπήν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 46:6)
  • σὺν δ’ ἄνεμοι ἔνοσίν τε κονίην τ’ ἐσφαράγιζον βροντήν τε στεροπήν τε καὶ αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνόν, κῆλα Διὸσ μεγάλοιο, φέρον δ’ ἰαχήν τ’ ἐνοπήν τε ἐσ μέσον ἀμφοτέρων· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 67:11)
  • Ζεὺσ δ’ ἐπεὶ οὖν κόρθυνεν ἑὸν μένοσ, εἵλετο δ’ ὅπλα, βροντήν τε στεροπήν τε καὶ αἰθαλόεντα κεραυνόν, πλῆξεν ἀπ’ Οὐλύμποιο ἐπάλμενοσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 79:1)
  • τότε γὰρ αὐτοῖσ πολυώνυμοσ γινόμενοσ ὑπερείδεισ τὸ πῖπτον τοῦ μέτρου καὶ ἀναπληροῖσ τὸ κεχηνὸσ τοῦ ῥυθμοῦ ‐ ποῦ σοι νῦν ἡ ἐρισμάραγοσ ἀστραπὴ καὶ ἡ βαρύβρομοσ βροντὴ καὶ ὁ αἰθαλόεισ καὶ ἀργήεισ καὶ σμερδαλέοσ κεραυνόσ; (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 1:2)

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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