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ἄλγος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλγος ἄλγεος

Structure: ἀλγο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. pain (of either mind or body), sorrow, trouble, grief, distress, woe
  2. that which causes pain

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄλγος ά̓λγει ά̓λγη
Genitive ά̓λγους ά̓λγοιν ἀλγέων
Dative ά̓λγει ά̓λγοιν ά̓λγεσιν*
Accusative ἄλγος ά̓λγει ά̓λγη
Vocative ά̓λγος ά̓λγει ά̓λγη

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

  • ἐπὶ δ’ ἄλγεσιν ἄλγεα κεῖται. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, strophe 38)
  • ὁρῶν σε πολλοῖσ ἐμπρέπουσαν ἄλγεσιν. (Sophocles, episode 3:19)
  • λινοφθόροι δ’ ὑφασμάτων λακίδεσ ἔφλαδον ὑπ’ ἄλγεσιν, προστέρνῳ στολμῷ πέπλων ἀγελάστοισ ξυμφοραῖσ πεπληγμένων. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, strophe 14)
  • "Μή μοι λευγαλέασ ἐνιβάλλεο, μῆτερ, ἀνίασ ὧδε λίην, ἐπεὶ οὐ μὲν ἐρητύσεισ κακότητοσ δάκρυσιν, ἀλλ’ ἔτι κεν καὶ ἐπ’ ἄλγεσιν ἄλγοσ ἄροιο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 6:20)
  • ἐπὶ ξηρὴ γὰρ ἔκειτο δίψα δυηπαθίῃ τε καὶ ἄλγεσιν, οὐδ’ ἐμάτησαν πλαζόμενοι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 22:15)

Synonyms

  1. pain

  2. that which causes pain

Related

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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