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δαίδαλος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: daidalos

Principal Part: δαίδαλος

Structure: δαιδαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: redupl. from Root ΔΑΛ

Sense

  1. cunningly or curiously wrought, cunning works
  2. Daedalus, the cunning worker, the artist

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τάχα δὲ καὶ Πασιφάη, παρὰ Δαιδάλου ἀκούσασα ταύρου τε πέρι τοῦ ἐν τοῖς ἄστροισι φαινομένου καὶ αὐτῆς ἀστρολογίης, ἐς ἔρωτα τοῦ λόγου ἀπίκετο, ἔνθεν νομίζουσιν ὅτι Δαίδαλός μιν τῷ ταύρῳ ἐνύμφευσεν. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 16:1)
  • ἃ δὲ Ὅμηρος ὑπὲρ Ἀριάδνης ἐν τῇ ἀσπίδι πεποίηκεν καὶ τοῦ χοροῦ ὃν αὐτῇ Δαίδαλος ἤσκησεν ὡς ἀνεγνωκότι σοι παρίημι, καὶ τοὺς ὀρχηστὰς δὲ τοὺς δύο οὓς ἐκεῖ ὁ ποιητὴς κυβιστητῆρας καλεῖ, ἡγουμένους τοῦ χοροῦ, καὶ πάλιν ἃ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ ἀσπίδι λέγει: (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 13:1)
  • ἐν δὲ χορὸν ποίκιλλε περικλυτὸς Ἀμφιγυήεις, τῷ ἴκελον οἱο῀`ν ποτ ἐνὶ Κνωσσῷ εὐρείῃ Δαίδαλος ἤσκησεν καλλιπλοκάμῳ Ἀριάδνῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 10 1:1)
  • ἀντὶ τούτου Δαίδαλος ἐν Πίσῃ εἰκόνα παραπλησίαν κατεσκεύασεν Ἡρακλεῖ: (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 6 3:5)
  • ἦν δὲ ὁ λαβύρινθος, ὃν Δαίδαλος κατεσκεύασεν, οἴκημα καμπαῖς πολυπλόκοις πλανῶν τὴν ἔξοδον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 1 4:8)

Synonyms

  1. cunningly or curiously wrought

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

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