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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

  • μαλερὰ μέλαθρα πυρὶ κατάδρομα δαί̈ῳ τε λόγχᾳ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric7)
  • Ἰλίου κατασκαφαὶ πυρὶ μέλουσι δαί̈ῳ δι’ ἐμὲ τὰν πολυκτόνον, δι’ ἐμὸν ὄνομα πολύπονον. (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 23)
  • καὶ σύ, Λύκει’ ἄναξ, Λύκειοσ γενοῦ στρατῷ δαί̈ῳ στόνων ἀντίτασ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 16)
  • μήποτ’ ἐμὸν κατ’ αἰῶνα λίποι θεῶν ἅδε πανάγυρισ, μηδ’ ἐπίδοιμι τάνδ’ ἀστυδρομουμέναν πόλιν καὶ στράτευμ’ ἁπτόμενον πυρὶ δαί̈ῳ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 21)
  • ἤδη γὰρ χαλκόσ τε γέρων, αὐτά τε τέτρυσαι πυκνὰ κραδαινομένα δαϊῴ ἐν πολέμῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 521)

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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