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ἄιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄιρος ἄιρᾱ ἄιρον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unhappy Irus

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓ιρος ἄίρᾱ ά̓ιρον
Genitive ἀίρου ἄίρᾱς ἀίρου
Dative ἀίρῳ ἄίρᾱͅ ἀίρῳ
Accusative ά̓ιρον ἄίρᾱν ά̓ιρον
Vocative ά̓ιρε ἄίρᾱ ά̓ιρον
DualN/A/V ἀίρω ἄίρᾱ ἀίρω
G/D ἀίροιν ἄίραιν ἀίροιν
PluralNominative ά̓ιροι ά̓́ιραι ά̓ιρα
Genitive ἀίρων ἄιρῶν ἀίρων
Dative ἀίροις ἄίραις ἀίροις
Accusative ἀίρους ἄίρᾱς ά̓ιρα
Vocative ά̓ιροι ά̓́ιραι ά̓ιρα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓ιρος ἀίρου ἀιρώτερος ἀιρωτέρου ἀιρώτατος ἀιρωτάτου
Adverb ἀίρως ἀιρώτερον ἀιρώτατα

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

  • αἴρου λαβὼν τὸν κέραμον ὦ Βοιώτιε. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 1 1:2)
  • τὴν ἀσπίδ’ αἴρου καὶ βάδιζ’ ὦ παῖ λαβών. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:49)
  • αἴρου τὸ δεῖπνον· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:53)
  • ἐν ὄψει δὲ πάντων, ἃ μηδὲ ἰδίᾳ ποιήσειεν ἄν τισ, θαρρῶν ποίει, καὶ τῶν ἀφροδισίων αἱροῦ τὰ γελοιότερα, καὶ τέλοσ, ἤν σοι δοκῇ, πολύποδα ὠμὸν ἢ σηπίαν φαγὼν ἀπόθανε. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 10:7)
  • πρὸσ ταῦτ’ ὦ μειράκιον θαρρῶν ἐμὲ τὸν κρείττω λόγον αἱροῦ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. unhappy Irus

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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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