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ἄνθος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄνθος ἄνθεος

Structure: ἀνθο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: note that a)nqe/wn shows up even in Attic.

Sense

  1. flower, blossom, bloom
  2. froth, scum
  3. bloom, peak
  4. brightness, brilliance

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

  • ἦμοσ δὲ σκόλυμόσ τ’ ἀνθεῖ καὶ ἠχέτα τέττιξ δενδρέῳ ἐφεζόμενοσ λιγυρὴν καταχεύετ’ ἀοιδὴν πυκνὸν ὑπὸ πτερύγων, θέρεοσ καματώδεοσ ὡρ́ῃ, τῆμοσ πιόταταί τ’ αἶγεσ καὶ οἶνοσ ἄριστοσ, μαχλόταται δὲ γυναῖκεσ, ἀφαυρότατοι δέ τοι ἄνδρεσ εἰσίν, ἐπεὶ κεφαλὴν καὶ γούνατα Σείριοσ ἄζει, αὐαλέοσ δέ τε χρὼσ ὑπὸ καύματοσ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 65:1)
  • τῶν δὲ ἔρημοσ ὁ χῶροσ γενόμενοσ δίψησ ἀεὶ πιμπράμενοσ ἀνθεῖ πολλαῖσ τε καὶ ἀγρίαισ ἐπιθυμίαισ. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 16:4)
  • ταῦτα γὰρ ἀνθεῖ διὰ τουτουσὶ τοὺσ ἀνοήτουσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, proagon11)
  • ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰ ἄνθη ξηρὰ ὄντα εἴ τισ βλέποι ἀποβεβληκότα τὴν βαφήν, ἄμορφα δῆλον ὅτι αὐτῷ δόξει, ὅτε μέντοι ἀνθεῖ καὶ ἔχει τὴν χρόαν, κάλλιστά ἐστιν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:4)
  • εἶθ’ ὁπόταν πλήρωμα Διὸσ σωτῆροσ ἕλησθε, ἤδη χρὴ γεραόν, πολιὸν σφόδρα κρᾶτα φοροῦντα οἶνον, ὑγρὰν χαίταν λευκῷ πεπυκασμένον ἄνθει πίνειν, ἐκ Λέσβου περικύμονοσ ἐκγεγαῶτα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 52 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. flower

  2. bloom

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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