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ἀνήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνήρ ανδρός

Structure: ἀνερ (Stem)

Etym.: Root ANER

Sense

  1. man (adult male)
  2. husband

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

  • οὔπω γε μὴν δοκῶ μοι γιγνώσκειν, πῶσ δὴ τὼ ἄνδρε τῷ Ἀγαμέμνονι παράσιτοι ἦσαν. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 45:2)
  • ὦ ξένε, πολλοὶ μὲν καὶ ἄλλοι χρηστοὶ καὶ δεξιοὶ ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν, καὶ οὐκ αν ἀλλαχόθι τοσούτουσ εὑρ́οισ ἄνδρασ ἀγαθούσ, δύο δὲ μάλιστά ἐστον ἡμῖν ἄνδρε ἀρίστω, γένει μὲν καὶ ἀξιώματι πολὺ προὔχοντοσ ἁπάντων, παιδείᾳ δὲ καὶ λόγων δυνάμει τῇ Ἀττικῇ δεκάδι παραβάλλοισ ἄν· (Lucian, Scytha 21:2)
  • ὅτε ἐνομίζομεν, ὦ ἄνδρε Ἀθηναῖοι, τὰσ γεγενημένασ συμφορὰσ ἱκανὰ μνημεῖα τῇ πόλει καταλελεῖφθαι, ὥστε μηδ’ ἂν τοὺσ ἐπιγινομένουσ ἑτέρασ πολιτείασ ἐπιθυμεῖν, τότε δὴ οὗτοι τοὺσ κακῶσ πεπονθότασ καὶ ἀμφοτέρων πεπειραμένουσ ἐξαπατῆσαι ζητοῦσι τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ ψηφίσμασιν, οἷσπερ καὶ πρότερον δὶσ ἤδη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 331)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄνδρε δύο γυναῖκα φεύγομεν μίαν; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:26)
  • ἄνδρε γὰρ λεπτὼ λογιστὰ δεῦρ’ ἀφῖχθον ὡσ ἐμέ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, lyric 1:7)

Synonyms

  1. man

  2. husband

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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