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ἀνδριάς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνδριάς ἀνδριάντος

Structure: ἀνδριαντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)nh/r

Sense

  1. image of a man, statue, puppet

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

  • λοχῶντά τε γὰρ ἐπιτηρεῖ καὶ ἀντίον αὐτῷ ὁρᾷ ἐκκλίνουσα τὴν ὁρμήν, ὡσ μὴ ἁλίσκοιτο σαγηνευθεῖσα καὶ περιπεσοῦσα ταῖσ τοῦ θηρίου πλεκτάναισ, τὴν μὲν γὰρ ἀνδρίαν καὶ τὴν ἀλκὴν αὐτῆσ οὐχ ἡμᾶσ χρὴ λέγειν, ἀλλ’ ὃσ μεγαλοφωνότατοσ τῶν ποιητῶν Ὅμηροσ· (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 5:2)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ καὶ πρὸσ ἀνδρίαν συμβάλλεται μεγάλα· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 13:1)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἰσχυρότερον τὸ δ’ ἀσθενέστερον ἐποίησεν, ἵνα τὸ μὲν φυλακτικώτερον ᾖ διὰ τὸν φόβον, τὸ δ’ ἀμυντικώτερον διὰ τὴν ἀνδρίαν, καὶ τὸ μὲν πορίζῃ τὰ ἔξωθεν, τὸ δὲ σῴζῃ τὰ ἔνδον· (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 17:4)
  • τὴν μὲν γὰρ τόλμαν ἀνδρίαν ἐκάλουν, τὴν δὲ μέλλησιν δειλίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 29 3:2)
  • ἤσκουν γὰρ ἀνδρίαν, καὶ εἴ ποτε μιγεῖσαι γεννήσειαν, τὰ θήλεα ἔτρεφον, καὶ τοὺσ μὲν δεξιοὺσ μαστοὺσ ἐξέθλιβον, ἵνα μὴ κωλύωνται ἀκοντίζειν, τοὺσ δὲ ἀριστεροὺσ εἰών, ἵνα τρέφοιεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 9:3)

Synonyms

  1. image of a man

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