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ἀθήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀθήρ ἀθέρος

Structure: ἀθηρ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an ear of corn
  2. husks, chaff
  3. barb of weapon

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

  • οὗτοι δὲ ἡμῖν ὑπέρυθροι εἰσ τὸ μελάντερον ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου κεχρωσμένοι καὶ ἀρρενωποί, πολὺ τὸ ἔμψυχον καὶ θερμὸν καὶ ἀνδρῶδεσ ἐπιφαίνοντεσ, τοσαύτησ εὐεξίασ ἀπολάμποντεσ,^ οὔτε ῥικνοὶ καὶ κατεσκληκότεσ οὔτε περιπληθεῖσ εἰσ βάροσ, ἀλλὰ εἰσ τὸ σύμμετρον περιγεγραμμένοι, τὸ μὲν ἀχρεῖον τῶν σαρκῶν καὶ περιττὸν τοῖσ ἱδρῶσιν ἐξαναλωκότεσ, ὃ δὲ ἰσχὺν καὶ τόνον παρεῖχεν ἀμιγὲσ τοῦ φαύλου περιλελειμμένον ἐρρωμένωσ φυλάττοντεσ, ὅπερ γὰρ δὴ οἱ λικμῶντεσ τὸν πυρόν, τοῦτο ἡμῖν καὶ τὰ γυμνάσια ἐργάζεται ἐν τοῖσ σώμασι, τὴν μὲν ἄχνην καὶ τοὺσ ἀθέρασ ἀποφυσῶντα, καθαρὸν δὲ τὸν καρπὸν διευκρινοῦντα καὶ προσωρεύοντα. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 25:3)

Synonyms

  1. an ear of corn

  2. husks

  3. barb of weapon

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

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