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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

  • "ἦν γὰρ τὸ παλαιὸν τὸ ἱερὸν κεκοσμημένον χαλκοῖσ ἀναθήμασιν, οὐκ ἀνδριᾶσιν ἀλλὰ λέβησι καὶ τρίποσι χαλκοῦ πεποιημένοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1915)
  • ὃ δὲ μάλιστα ψυχαγωγεῖ διὰ τῆσ ὄψεωσ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ, τὸ ζωτικὸν φαίνεσθαι, πῶσ τοῦτο ἐνεργάζῃ τοῖσ ἀνδριᾶσιν; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 10 8:2)
  • καὶ νὴ Δία ἐπὶ ταῖσ γραφαῖσ καὶ τοῖσ ἀνδριᾶσιν, ὧν οὐδὲν ὤνησε τοὺσ πρότερον ἔχοντασ, ἀλλὰ παῤ ὧν ἐκεῖνα ἐκομίσθη, τούτουσ ἴδοι τισ ἂν δούλουσ καὶ ταπεινοὺσ καὶ πένητασ; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 1:3)
  • ὁπόσοισ δὲ ἢ αὐτοῖσ <τι> εἶχεν ἐσ δόξαν ἢ καὶ τοῖσ ἀνδριᾶσιν ὑπῆρχεν ἄμεινον ἑτέρων πεποιῆσθαι, τοσαῦτα καὶ αὐτὸσ μνησθήσομαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 3:3)
  • ἐν δὲ τοῖσ ἀνδριᾶσιν ὁπόσουσ Νέρων ἔλαβεν ἐκ Δελφῶν, ἐν τούτοισ τὸν ἀριθμὸν καὶ τῆσ Ὕδνησ ἀπεπλήρωσεν ἡ εἰκών. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. image of a man

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