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αἰών

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἰών αἰῶνος

Structure: αἰων (Stem)

Etym.: poet.: apocop. acc. ai)w=

Sense

  1. lifetime
  2. generation
  3. a long period of time, eon, epoch, age
  4. the current world

Declension

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

  • παροῦσάν τε μιμοῦνται αὐτὴν καὶ ποθοῦσιν ἀπελθοῦσαν. καὶ ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι στεφανηφοροῦσα πομπεύει τὸν τῶν ἀμιάντων ἄθλων ἀγῶνα νικήσασα. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 4:2)
  • καὶ ἀρχῆσ γὰρ ἀπολλυμένων ὑπερηφάνων γιγάντων, ἡ ἐλπὶσ τοῦ κόσμου ἐπὶ σχεδίασ καταφυγοῦσα ἀπέλιπεν αἰῶνι σπέρμα γενέσεωσ τῇ σῇ κυβερνηθεῖσα χειρί. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:6)
  • ἄξιοι μὲν γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι στερηθῆναι φωτὸσ καὶ φυλακισθῆναι ἐν σκότει, οἱ κατακλείστουσ φυλάξαντεσ τοὺσ υἱούσ σου, δἰ ὧν ἤμελλε τὸ ἄφθαρτον νόμου φῶσ τῷ αἰῶνι δίδοσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:4)
  • ὁ γοῦν Σιμωνίδησ ἀνθρώπων φησὶν ὀλίγον μὲν κάρτοσ, ἄπρακτοι δὲ μεληδόνεσ, αἰῶνι δὲ παύρῳ πόνοσ ἀμφὶ πόνῳ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 11 2:2)
  • κἀγὼ τοῦδ’ ἴστωρ, ὑπερίστωρ, πανσύρτῳ παμμήνῳ πολλῶν δεινῶν στυγνῶν τ’ αἰῶνι. (Sophocles, choral, strophe 22)

Synonyms

  1. lifetime

  2. generation

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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