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ἁμός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁμός ἁμή ἁμόν

Structure: ἁμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. our, ours

Declension

First/Second 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

  • εἴπερ πεποιθὼσ τῇ δίκῃ βρέτασ τόδε ἧσαι φυλάσσων ἑστίασ ἁμῆσ πέλασ σεμνὸσ προσίκτωρ ἐν τρόποισ Ἰξίονοσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:3)
  • οὐ γάρ πω σχεδὸν ἦλθον Ἀχαιί̈δοσ, οὐδέ πω ἁμῆσ γῆσ ἐπέβην, ἀλλ’ αἰὲν ἔχων ἀλάλημαι ὀιζύν, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πρώτισθ’ ἑπόμην Ἀγαμέμνονι δίῳ Ἴλιον εἰσ ἐύπωλον, ἵνα Τρώεσσι μαχοίμην. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 20:3)
  • οὐ γάρ πω σχεδὸν ἦλθον Ἀχαιί̈δοσ, οὐδέ πω ἁμῆσ γῆσ ἐπέβην, ἀλλ’ αἰὲν ἔχω κακά. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 59:3)
  • πυραμοῦσ, ἄμησ, ᾠῶν ἑκατόμβη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 50 3:5)
  • χόνδροσ μετὰ ταῦτ’ εἰσῆλθε, μύρον Αἰγύπτιον, φοινικίνου βῖκόσ τισ ὑπανεῴγνυτο, ἴτρια, τραγήμαθ’ ἧκε, πυραμοῦσ, ἄμησ, ᾠῶν ἑκατόμβη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 502)
  • ἄμησ πλακοῦντοσ γένοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 52 2:11)
  • "ἄμησ, πλακοῦσ, ἔντιλτοσ, ἴτριον, ῥόα, ᾠόν, ἐρέβινθοσ, σησάμη, κοπτή, βότρυσ, ἰσχάσ, ἄπιοσ, πέρσεια, μῆλ’, ἀμύγδαλα ταῦτα μὲν ὁ Κλέαρχοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 609)

Synonyms

  1. our

Related

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

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