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ἀνδρομάχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνδρομάχος

Structure: ἀνδρομαχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)nh/r, ma/xomai

Sense

  1. fighting with men

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

  • καὶ μέχρι μὲν Ἀνδρομάχη τισ ἢ Ἑκάβη ἐστίν, φορητὸσ ἡ ᾠδή· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 27:5)
  • οὗ θᾶσσον οὕνεκ’, ἢ χάριν μονῆσ ἔχων, φροῦδοσ, μετ’ αὐτοῦ δ’ Ἀνδρομάχη, πολλῶν ἐμοὶ δακρύων ἀγωγόσ, ἡνίκ’ ἐξώρμα χθονόσ, πάτραν τ’ ἀναστένουσα καὶ τὸν Ἕκτοροσ τύμβον προσεννέπουσα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 1:3)
  • φόβον τ’ Ἀχαιῶν, χαλκόνωτον ἀσπίδα τήνδ’, ἣν πατὴρ τοῦδ’ ἀμφὶ πλεύρ’ ἐβάλλετο, μή νυν πορεῦσαι Πηλέωσ ἐφ’ ἑστίαν, μηδ’ ἐσ τὸν αὐτὸν θάλαμον, οὗ νυμφεύσεται μήτηρ νεκροῦ τοῦδ’ Ἀνδρομάχη, λύπασ ὁρᾶν, ἀλλ’ ἀντὶ κέδρου περιβόλων τε λαί̈νων ἐν τῇδε θάψαι παῖδα· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 1:5)
  • ἕλοιτ’ ἂν ὁ φίλοσ μᾶλλον, εἰ μὴ ἐνδέχοιτ’ ἄμφω, γιγνώσκειν ἢ γιγνώσκεσθαι, οἱο͂ν ἐν ταῖσ ὑποβολαῖσ αἱ γυναῖκεσ ποιοῦσι, καὶ ἡ Ἀνδρομάχη ἡ Ἀντιφῶντοσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 108:1)
  • Ἀνδρομάχη δ’ ἕστηκε ῥοδόσφυροσ Ηἐτιώνη, οὔτι γόον σταλάουσα πολύστονον ὡσ γὰρ ὀίω, οὔπω ἐνὶ πτολέμῳ κορυθαίολοσ ἤριπεν Ἕκτωρ, οὐδὲ φερεσσακέων ὑπερήνορεσ υἱε͂σ Ἀχαιῶν Δαρδανίην ξύμπασαν ἐληΐσσαντο τιθήνην, ἦν δ’ ἐσιδεῖν Μενέλαον ἀρήιον, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ νίκῃ γηθόσυνον σχεδόθεν γὰρ ἐθάλπετο χάρματι πολλῷ δερκόμενοσ ῥοδόπηχυν ὁμόφρονα Τυνδαρεώνην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 2, chapter 1 32:1)

Synonyms

  1. fighting with men

Related

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

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