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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

  • καὶ μὴν ἡμεῖσ ἐπιθυμοῦμεν παρὰ σοφοῖν ἀνδροῖν ἀκοῦσαι τίνα λόγων ἐμμέλειαν ἔπιτε δαί̈αν ὁδόν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, strophe 11)
  • ἀνδροῖν δ’ ὁμαίμοιν θάνατοσ ὧδ’ αὐτοκτόνοσ, οὐκ ἔστι γῆρασ τοῦδε τοῦ μιάσματοσ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:19)
  • νῦν δὲ τὴν ἐναντίαν γάρ, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, Λάχησ Νικίᾳ ἔθετο, εὖ δὴ ἔχει ἀκοῦσαι καὶ σοῦ ποτέρῳ τοῖν ἀνδροῖν σύμψηφοσ εἶ. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 38:1)
  • καὶ οὐ μόνον τοῦτο συνεβούλευον τοῖσ ἄλλοισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἔδωκα δυοῖν ἀνδροῖν τριάκοντα δραχμὰσ ἑκατέρῳ, οὐχ ὡσ πολλὰ κεκτημένοσ, ἀλλ’ ἵνα παράδειγμα τοῦτο τοῖσ ἄλλοισ γένηται. (Lysias, Speeches, 19:1)
  • περὶ ἐκείνου οὖν ἡδέωσ ἄν, εἰ βουλομένῳ ἐστὶν Ἱππίᾳ, ἀναπυθοίμην ὅπωσ αὐτῷ δοκεῖ περὶ τοῖν ἀνδροῖν τούτοιν, πότερον ἀμείνω φησὶν εἶναι, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ παντοδαπὰ ἡμῖν ἐπιδέδεικται καὶ περὶ ποιητῶν τε ἄλλων καὶ περὶ Ὁμήρου. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. man

  2. husband

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