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δάιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δάιος δάιη δάιον

Structure: δαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: In signf. II from Da/w, dah=nai: in signf. I perh. from dai/+s battle.

Sense

  1. hostile, destructive, dreadful, burning, consuming, enemies, an enemy, hostile
  2. unhappy, wretched
  3. knowing, cunning

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

  • ἔνθ’ ἄρ’ ὅ γε φλόγα δαῖε πιφαυσκόμενοσ τὰ ἃ κῆλα· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , <[Ei)\s A)po/llwna Pu/qion]> 29:1)
  • δαῖε δὲ φιτρουσ πῦρ ὑπένερθεν ἱείσ, ἐπὶ δὲ μιγάδασ χέε λοιβάσ, Βριμὼ κικλήσκων Ἑκάτην ἐπαρωγὸν ἀέθλων. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 20:11)
  • δαῖε δ’ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ γλυκερὸν πόθον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 18:23)
  • δαῖε δέ οἱ πῦρ γρῆυσ Ἀπειραίη, θαλαμηπόλοσ Εὐρυμέδουσα, τήν ποτ’ Ἀπείρηθεν νέεσ ἤγαγον ἀμφιέλισσαι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 7 1:4)
  • ἀμφὶ δ’ Ἀθήνη ὤμοισ ἰφθίμοισι βάλ’ αἰγίδα θυσσανόεσσαν, ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ κεφαλῇ νέφοσ ἔστεφε δῖα θεάων χρύσεον, ἐκ δ’ αὐτοῦ δαῖε φλόγα παμφανόωσαν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 22:2)
  • σὺ δὲ τέκνα τρίγον’, ὦ δάιε, τεκόμενοσ, λυσσάδι συγκατειργάσω μοίρᾳ. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric7)
  • εἰσ στήλην Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Μακεδόνοσ Λύσιππε, πλάστα Σικυώνιε, θαρσαλέη χείρ, δάιε τεχνίτα, πῦρ τοι ὁ χαλκὸσ ὁρῇ, ὃν κατ’ Ἀλεξάνδρου μορφᾶσ χέεσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1191)

Synonyms

  1. unhappy

  2. knowing

Related

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

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