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αἰθέριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰθέριος

Structure: αἰθερι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ai)qh/r

Sense

  1. of or in the upper air, high in air, on high, into the air

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative αἰθέριος αἰθερίᾱ αἰθέριον
Genitive αἰθερίου αἰθερίᾱς αἰθερίου
Dative αἰθερίῳ αἰθερίᾱͅ αἰθερίῳ
Accusative αἰθέριον αἰθερίᾱν αἰθέριον
Vocative αἰθέριε αἰθερίᾱ αἰθέριον
DualN/A/V αἰθερίω αἰθερίᾱ αἰθερίω
G/D αἰθερίοιν αἰθερίαιν αἰθερίοιν
PluralNominative αἰθέριοι αἰθέριαι αἰθέρια
Genitive αἰθερίων αἰθεριῶν αἰθερίων
Dative αἰθερίοις αἰθερίαις αἰθερίοις
Accusative αἰθερίους αἰθερίᾱς αἰθέρια
Vocative αἰθέριοι αἰθέριαι αἰθέρια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective αἰθέριος αἰθερίου αἰθεριότερος αἰθεριοτέρου αἰθεριότατος αἰθεριοτάτου
Adverb αἰθερίως αἰθεριότερον αἰθεριότατα

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

  • αἰθέριον ἄναγε χορόν· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric12)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ὄροσ σκιερὸν οὔτε νέφοσ αἰθέριον οὔτε πολιὸν πέλαγοσ ἔστιν ὅ τι δέξεται τώδ’ ἀποφυγόντε με. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antistrophe3)
  • τοιάδε κύκνοι, τιὸ τιὸ τιὰ τιὸ τιὸ τιοτίγξ, συμμιγῆ βοὴν ὁμοῦ πτεροῖσ κρέκοντεσ ἰάκχον Ἀπόλλω, τιὸ τιὸ τιὸ τιοτίγξ, ὄχθῳ ἐφεζόμενοι παρ’ Ἕβρον ποταμόν, τιὸ τιὸ τιὸ τιοτίγξ, διὰ δ’ αἰθέριον νέφοσ ἦλθε βοά· (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, antistrophe1)
  • ὦ κλεινοτάτην αἰθέριον οἰκίσασ πόλιν, οὐκ οἷσθ’ ὅσην τιμὴν παρ’ ἀνθρώποισ φέρει, ὅσουσ τ’ ἐραστὰσ τῆσδε τῆσ χώρασ ἔχεισ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 18)
  • αἰθέριον μὲν γάρ σφε μένοσ πόντονδε διώκει, πόντοσ δ’ ἐσ χθονὸσ οὖδασ ἀπέπτυσε· (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or in the upper air

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

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