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ἄμης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμης ἄμες

Structure: ἀμη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. milk-cake

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

  • καὶ τὼσ μὲν ἁμῶν ἄνδρασ ἁμὲσ πείσομεσ παντᾷ δικαίωσ ἄδολον εἰράναν ἄγειν· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 4:33)
  • ἁμέσ γε λῶμεσ, αἴ τισ ἁμὶν τὤγκυκλον λῇ τοῦτ’ ἀποδόμεν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests 2:6)
  • τριῶν οὖν χορῶν ὄντων κατὰ τὰσ τρεῖσ ἡλικίασ καὶ συνισταμένων ἐν ταῖσ ἑορταῖσ, ὁ μὲν τῶν γερόντων ἀρχόμενοσ ᾖδεν, ἁμέσ ποκ’ ἦμεσ ἄλκιμοι νεανίαι· (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 151)
  • εἶτα ὁ τῶν ἀκμαζόντων ἀνδρῶν ἀμειβόμενοσ, ἁμὲσ δέ γ’ εἰμέσ· (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 15 1:1)
  • ὁ δὲ τρίτοσ ὁ τῶν παίδων, ἁμὲσ δὲ γ’ ἐσσόμεσθα πολλῷ κάρρονεσ. (Plutarch, Instituta Laconica, section 15 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. milk-cake

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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