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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

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

  • ὑπὸ τοῦ γὰρ ἄλγουσ κατατέτηκ’ ὦ φίλτατε. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:26)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐκ γὰρ ἄλγουσ ἄλγοσ αὖ σὲ δέρκομαι κάρα ξυρῆκεσ καὶ πέπλουσ μελαγχίμουσ ἔχουσαν, οἴμοι τῶν ἐμῶν ἐγὼ κακῶν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 3:9)
  • πολλαὶ δ’ ἀταλαῖσ χερσὶ καλύπτρασ κατερεικόμεναι διαμυδαλέοισ δάκρυσι κόλπουσ τέγγουσ’, ἄλγουσ μετέχουσαι. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, anapests2)
  • πάντα γὰρ κακῶν ὑπ’ ἄλγουσ λακίδεσ ἀμφὶ σώματι στημορραγοῦσι ποικίλων ἐσθημάτων. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics 3:5)
  • ἔξω, κελεύω, τῶνδε δωμάτων τάχοσ χωρεῖτ’, ἀπαλλάσσεσθε μαντικῶν μυχῶν, μὴ καὶ λαβοῦσα πτηνὸν ἀργηστὴν ὄφιν, χρυσηλάτου θώμιγγοσ ἐξορμώμενον, ἀνῇσ ὑπ’ ἄλγουσ μέλαν’ ἀπ’ ἀνθρώπων ἀφρόν, ἐμοῦσα θρόμβουσ οὓσ ἀφείλκυσασ φόνου. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode1)

Synonyms

  1. pain

  2. that which causes pain

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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