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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

  • μηδ’ ἐπ’ ἀκινήτοισι καθιζέμεν, οὐ γὰρ ἄμεινον, παῖδα δυωδεκαταῖον, ὅτ’ ἀνέρ’ ἀνήνορα ποιεῖ, μηδὲ δυωδεκάμηνον· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 91:1)
  • τῶν ὄνομ’ ἀργαλέον πάντων βροτὸν ἀνέρ’ ἐνισπεῖν, οἳ δὲ ἕκαστοι ἴσασιν, ὅσοι περιναιετάωσιν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 36:6)
  • ταῦτ’ οὖν ὁ θεὸσ ὦ φίλ’ ἄνερ οὐκ ὀρθῶσ ποιεῖ, φάσκων βοηθεῖν τοῖσ ἀδικουμένοισ ἀεί. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:18)
  • Οὐκοῦν, ὦ ἄνερ, σὺ καὶ τοῦτο ἰάσαι καὶ τὸν Ἑρμῆν κέλευσον, ἐπειδὰν ἐν τῷ φωτὶ ἤδη ὁ Πρωτεσίλαοσ ᾖ, καθικόμενον ἐν τῇ ῥάβδῳ νεανίαν εὐθὺσ καλὸν ἀπεργάσασθαι αὐτόν, οἱο͂σ ἦν ἐκ τοῦ παστοῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 5:6)
  • "ὦ φίλτατ’ ἄνερ, προσμένουσα σοῦ χωρὶσ ἔζων ἀνιαρῶσ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 22 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. man

  2. husband

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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