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ἀίτας

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀίτας

Structure: ἀιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: a)i/+w

Sense

  1. a beloved youth, favourite, lover

Declension

First 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

  • αἰτοῦ πόλιν. (Euripides, episode, iambic 1:26)
  • θεοὺσ δὲ προστροπαῖσ ἱκνουμένη, εἴ τι φλαῦρον εἶδεσ, αἰτοῦ τῶνδ’ ἀποτροπὴν τελεῖν, τὰ δ’ ἀγάθ’ ἐκτελῆ γενέσθαι σοί τε καὶ τέκνοισ σέθεν καὶ πόλει φίλοισ τε πᾶσι. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees2)
  • πρευμενῶσ δ’ αἰτοῦ τάδε, σὸν πόσιν Δαρεῖον, ὅνπερ φὴσ ἰδεῖν κατ’ εὐφρόνην, ἐσθλά σοι πέμπειν τέκνῳ τε γῆσ ἔνερθεν ἐσ φάοσ, τἄμπαλιν δὲ τῶνδε γαίᾳ κάτοχα μαυροῦσθαι σκότῳ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees4)
  • αἰτοῦ δὲ προσπίτνουσα γῆθεν εὐμενῆ ἡμῖν ἀρωγὸν αὐτὸν εἰσ ἐχθροὺσ μολεῖν, καὶ παῖδ’ Ὀρέστην ἐξ ὑπερτέρασ χερὸσ ἐχθροῖσιν αὐτοῦ ζῶντ’ ἐπεμβῆναι ποδί, ὅπωσ τὸ λοιπὸν αὐτὸν ἀφνεωτέραισ χερσὶν στέφωμεν ἢ τανῦν δωρούμεθα. (Sophocles, episode 7:11)
  • ὥσ σφασ καλοῦμεν Εὐμενίδασ, ἐξ εὐμενῶν στέρνων δέχεσθαι τὸν ἱκέτην σωτήριον, αἰτοῦ σύ τ’ αὐτὸσ κεἴ τισ ἄλλοσ ἀντὶ σοῦ, ἄπυστα φωνῶν μηδὲ μηκύνων βοήν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 5:26)

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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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