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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀθήρ ἀθέρε ἀθέρες
Genitive ἀθέρος ἀθέροιν ἀθέρων
Dative ἀθέρι ἀθέροιν ἀθέρσιν*
Accusative ἀθέρα ἀθέρε ἀθέρας
Vocative ἀθήρς ἀθέρε ἀθέρες

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

  • τὸ γὰρ ἀπορρέον πνεῦμα τῆσ χιόνοσ ἐστὶ μὲν οἱο͂ν ἀθὴρ τοῦ πάγου καὶ ψῆγμα λεπτομερέστατον, ἔχει δέ τι τομὸν καὶ διαιρετικὸν οὐ σαρκὸσ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀργυρῶν καὶ χαλκῶν ἀγγείων ὁρῶμεν γὰρ ταῦτα μὴ στέγοντα τὴν χιόνα· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 25:1)

Synonyms

  1. an ear of corn

  2. husks

  3. barb of weapon

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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