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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

  • "ἀνδριάντοσ; (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 16:2)
  • ἀνακεῖσθαι δέ φαμεν ἐπὶ ἀνδριάντοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 427)
  • "Νίκανδρόσ φησιν ἐξ ἀνδριάντοσ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ Ἀλεξάνδρου τὴν καλουμένην ἀμβροσίαν φύεσθαι ἐν Κῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 32 1:6)
  • ὥσπερ εἰ ἀνδριάντοσ ἐρῶν ἐτύγχανεσ καὶ ᾤου τεύξεσθαι ὑπολαμβάνων ἄνθρωπον εἶναι, ἐγὼ δὲ κατιδὼν ὡσ λίθοσ ἢ χαλκὸσ εἰή ἐμήνυσα πρόσ σε ὑπ̓ εὐνοίασ ὅτι ἀδυνάτων ἐρᾷσ, καὶ τότε δύσνουν ἐμὲ εἶναι ᾤου ἂν σαυτῷ, διότι σε οὐκ εἰών ἐξαπατᾶσθαι ἀλλόκοτα καὶ ἀνέλπιστα ἐλπίζοντα. (Lucian, 105:7)
  • εἶτ’ ἀνδριάντοσ μὲν μέγεθοσ οὐκ ἂν ἄνευ τέχνησ ὑπὸ τύχησ γένοιτο χρυσὸν καὶ χαλκὸν καὶ ἐλέφαντα καὶ πολλὴν καὶ πλουσίαν ὕλην καταχεαμένησ καὶ παραβαλούσησ· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 3 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. image of a man

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