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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

  • οὗτοσ τὸν ἁμὸν πατέρ’ ἔθρεψεν, ὦ ξένε. (Euripides, episode 3:9)
  • αἵ μοι συμβαίνουσ’ ἆται, σύγγονον ἁμὸν κατακλαιομένα ζωᾶσ, οἱάν <οἱάν> ἰδόμαν ὄψιν ὀνείρων νυκτόσ, τᾶσ ἐξῆλθ’ ὄρφνα. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 1:2)
  • φησὶ δ’ ἐν φάει πόσιν τὸν ἁμὸν ζῶντα φέγγοσ εἰσορᾶν, πορθμοὺσ δ’ ἀλᾶσθαι μυρίουσ πεπλωκότα ἐκεῖσε κἀκεῖσ’ οὐδ’ ἀγύμναστον πλάνοισ, ἥξειν <δ’> ὅταν δὴ πημάτων λάβῃ τέλοσ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue2)
  • τὸν ἁμόν νυν ἀντίπαλον εὐτυχεῖν θεοὶ δοῖεν, ὡσ δικαίωσ πόλεωσ πρόμαχοσ ὄρνυται· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 11)
  • ὦ θεομανέσ τε καὶ θεῶν μέγα στύγοσ, ὦ πανδάκρυτον ἁμὸν Οἰδίπου γένοσ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:4)
  • πατέρα τὸν ἀμὸν μὴ στύγει, πόσιν γε σόν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 1:30)

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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