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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

  • τῶν γὰρ δούλων τῶν σπου δαίων τοὺσ μὲν γεωργοὺσ ἀποδεικνύουσι, τοὺσ δὲ ναυκλήρουσ τοὺσ δ’ ἐμπόρουσ τοὺσ δ’ οἰκονόμουσ τοὺσ δὲ δανειστάσ· (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 7 1:2)
  • νῦν γὰρ μέλλουσι μιανθεῖσαι πειραὶ κοπάνων ἀνδροδαί̈κτων ἢ πάνυ θήσειν Ἀγαμεμνονίων οἴκων ὄλεθρον διὰ παντόσ, ἢ πῦρ καὶ φῶσ ἐπ’ ἐλευθερίᾳ δαίων ἀρχάσ τε πολισσονόμουσ πατέρων <θ’> ἕξει μέγαν ὄλβον. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode, anapests2)
  • μαρτυρεῖ δέ μοι κάσισ πηλοῦ ξύνουροσ διψία κόνισ τάδε, ὡσ οὔτ’ ἄναυδοσ οὔτε σοι δαίων φλόγα ὕλησ ὀρείασ σημανεῖ καπνῷ πυρόσ, ἀλλ’ ἢ τὸ χαίρειν μᾶλλον ἐκβάξει λέγων ‐ τὸν ἀντίον δὲ τοῖσδ’ ἀποστέργω λόγον· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode2)
  • Ἀρχὸν γὰρ καὶ τάμνων, καὶ ἀποτάμνων, καὶ ἀναῤῬάπτων, καὶ δαίων, καὶ ἀποσήπων, ταῦτα γὰρ δοκέει δεινότατα εἶναι, οὐδὲν ἂν σίνοιο. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 2.2)
  • ἀλλ’, ὦ Ζεῦ πάτερ παντελέσ, πάντωσ ἄρηξον δαί̈ων ἅλωσιν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 14)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ χώρασ τοῖσ πολισσούχοισ θεοῖσ, πεδιονόμοισ τε κἀγορᾶσ ἐπισκόποισ, Δίρκησ τε πηγαῖσ, ὕδατί τ’ Ἰσμηνοῦ λέγω εὖ ξυντυχόντων καὶ πόλεωσ σεσωμένησ, μήλοισιν αἱμάσσοντασ ἑστίασ θεῶν, ταυροκτονοῦντασ θεοῖσιν, ὧδ’ ἐπεύχομαι θύσειν τροπαῖα, δαί̈ων δ’ ἐσθήματα, στέψω λάφυρα δουρίπληχθ’ ἁγνοῖσ δόμοισ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 1:1)
  • σφόδρα δόξομεν δαί̈ων ὑπέρτεροι ἐν φάει καταβαίνειν· (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 4 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. unhappy

  2. knowing

Related

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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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