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αὐτάδελφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτάδελφος

Structure: αὐταδελφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. related as brother or sister
  2. one's own brother or sister

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative αὐτάδελφος αὐτάδελφον
Genitive αὐταδέλφου αὐταδέλφου
Dative αὐταδέλφῳ αὐταδέλφῳ
Accusative αὐτάδελφον αὐτάδελφον
Vocative αὐτάδελφε αὐτάδελφον
DualN/A/V αὐταδέλφω αὐταδέλφω
G/D αὐταδέλφοιν αὐταδέλφοιν
PluralNominative αὐτάδελφοι αὐτάδελφα
Genitive αὐταδέλφων αὐταδέλφων
Dative αὐταδέλφοις αὐταδέλφοις
Accusative αὐταδέλφους αὐτάδελφα
Vocative αὐτάδελφοι αὐτάδελφα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective αὐτάδελφος αὐταδέλφου αὐταδελφότερος αὐταδελφοτέρου αὐταδελφότατος αὐταδελφοτάτου
Adverb αὐταδέλφως αὐταδελφότερον αὐταδελφότατα

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

  • ἀλλ’ αὐτάδελφον αἷμα δρέψασθαι θέλεισ; (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode8)
  • ὦ κοινὸν αὐτάδελφον Ἰσμήνησ κάρα, ἆρ’ οἶσθ’ ὅ τι Ζεὺσ τῶν ἀπ’ Οἰδίπου κακῶν ὁποῖον οὐχὶ νῷν ἔτι ζώσαιν τελεῖ; (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:1)
  • καίτοι πόθεν κλέοσ γ’ ἂν εὐκλεέστερον κατέσχον ἢ τὸν αὐτάδελφον ἐν τάφῳ τιθεῖσα; (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 4:4)
  • ἥτισ τὸν αὑτῆσ αὐτάδελφον ἐν φοναῖσ πεπτῶτ’ ἄθαπτον μήθ’ ὑπ’ ὠμηστῶν κυνῶν εἰάσ’ ὀλέσθαι μήθ’ ὑπ’ οἰωνῶν τινοσ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:8)
  • σὺ δ’, αὐτάδελφον αἷμα καὶ κοινοῦ πατρόσ, Ἑρμῆ, φύλασσε· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 7:16)

Synonyms

  1. related as brother or sister

  2. one's own brother or sister

Related

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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