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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
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative δαῖος δάίᾱ δαῖον
Genitive δαίου δάίᾱς δαίου
Dative δαίῳ δάίᾱͅ δαίῳ
Accusative δαῖον δάίᾱν δαῖον
Vocative δαῖε δάίᾱ δαῖον
DualN/A/V δαίω δάίᾱ δαίω
G/D δαίοιν δάίαιν δαίοιν
PluralNominative δαῖοι δά́ιαι δαῖα
Genitive δαίων δάιῶν δαίων
Dative δαίοις δάίαις δαίοις
Accusative δαίους δάίᾱς δαῖα
Vocative δαῖοι δά́ιαι δαῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective δαῖος δαίου δαιώτερος δαιωτέρου δαιώτατος δαιωτάτου
Adverb δαίως δαιώτερον δαιώτατα

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

  • ἦ ἐπὶ Νείλῳ δαίοισ ὢν περίοπτοσ ὁρ́οισ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 6452)
  • τί γὰρ ἄμεινον ἢ ταχυβάταν νεῶν κατόπταν μολεῖν πέλασ ὅ τί ποτ’ ἄρα δαί̈οισ πυρὰ κατ’ ἀντίπρῳρα ναυστάθμων δαίεται; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, strophe 13)
  • ὁρᾷσ τὸν θρασύν, τὸν εὐκάρδιον, τὸν ἐν δαί̈οισ ἄτρεστον μάχαισ, ἐν ἀφόβοισ με θηρσὶ δεινὸν χέρασ; (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 21)

Synonyms

  1. unhappy

  2. knowing

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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