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ἄνοστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄνοστος ἄνοστη ἄνοστον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + νοστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unreturning, without return, never, never to return

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓νοστος ἄνόστη ά̓νοστον
Genitive ἀνόστου ἄνόστης ἀνόστου
Dative ἀνόστῳ ἄνόστῃ ἀνόστῳ
Accusative ά̓νοστον ἄνόστην ά̓νοστον
Vocative ά̓νοστε ἄνόστη ά̓νοστον
DualN/A/V ἀνόστω ἄνόστᾱ ἀνόστω
G/D ἀνόστοιν ἄνόσταιν ἀνόστοιν
PluralNominative ά̓νοστοι ά̓́νοσται ά̓νοστα
Genitive ἀνόστων ἄνοστῶν ἀνόστων
Dative ἀνόστοις ἄνόσταις ἀνόστοις
Accusative ἀνόστους ἄνόστᾱς ά̓νοστα
Vocative ά̓νοστοι ά̓́νοσται ά̓νοστα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓νοστος ἀνόστου ἀνοστότερος ἀνοστοτέρου ἀνοστότατος ἀνοστοτάτου
Adverb ἀνόστως ἀνοστότερον ἀνοστότατα

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

  • καί νύ κε δὴ πάντασ ὄλεσαν καὶ ἔθηκαν ἀνόστουσ, εἰ μὴ Ἀθηναίη, κούρη Διὸσ αἰγιόχοιο, ἠύ̈σεν φωνῇ, κατὰ ἔσχεθε λαὸν ἅπαντα. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 24 63:4)
  • ἄνοστοσ εἰήν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 5:26)

Similar forms

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

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