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ἄρδις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: ardis

Principal Part: ἄρδις ἄρδιος

Structure: ἀρδι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. point of an arrow

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

  • ἐλελεῦ ἐλελεῦ, ὑπό μ αὖ σφάκελος καὶ φρενοπληγεῖς μανίαι θάλπους, οἴστρου δ ἄρδις χρίει μ ἄπυρος: (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests1)
  • τὸν δ ἀεὶ λινεῦντ ἐν ἀμφικλύστῳ Πανός τε ματρὸς εὐνέτας, φὼρ δίζῳος, ἶνίς τ ἀνδροβρῶτος ἰλιοραιστᾶν ἦρ ἀρδίων ἐς Τευκρίδ ἄγαγον τρίπορθον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 26 3:1)
  • ὅσα μὲν γὰρ ἐς αἰχμὰς καὶ ἄρδις καὶ σαγάρις, χαλκῷ τὰ πάντα χρέωνται, ὅσα δὲ περὶ κεφαλὴν καὶ ζωστῆρας καὶ μασχαλιστῆρας, χρυσῷ κοσμέονται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 215 2:3)
  • τοῦτο ὦν ἔλεγον οἱ ἐπιχώριοι ἀπὸ ἀρδίων γενέσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 81 5:3)
  • κομισθῆναι τε δὴ χρῆμα πολλὸν ἀρδίων καί οἱ δόξαι ἐξ αὐτέων μνημόσυνον ποιήσαντι λιπέσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 81 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. point of an arrow

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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