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ἄρδις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

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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