Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

δάνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δάνος δάνη δάνον

Structure: δαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. money lent, a loan, debt

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

  • πολλοὶ ὡσ εὕρεμα ἐνόμισαν δάνοσ καὶ παρέσχον πόνον τοῖσ βοηθήσασιν αὐτοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 29:4)
  • καὶ τὸ μὲν γνήσιον γένοσ τῷ Ιἀκώβῳ τοῦτο ἦν, ἐκ Βάλλασ δὲ αὐτῷ γίνονται τῆσ Ῥαχήλασ θεραπαινίδοσ Δάνοσ καὶ Νεφθαλίσ, ᾧ τέσσαρεσ εἵποντο παῖδεσ, Ἐλιῆλοσ Γοῦνισ Σάρησ τε καὶ Σέλλιμοσ, Δάνῳ δὲ μονογενὲσ ἦν παιδίον Οὖσισ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 223:1)
  • Πρω‐ τεσίλαόν τ’ ἐπὶ θάκοισ πεσσῶν ἡδομένουσ μορ‐ φαῖσι πολυπλόκοισ Παλαμήδεά θ’, ὃν τέκε παῖσ ὁ Ποσει‐ δᾶνοσ, Διομήδεά θ’ ἡδο‐ ναῖσ δίσκου κεχαρημένον, παρὰ δὲ Μηριόνην, Ἄρεοσ ὄζον, θαῦμα βροτοῖσιν, τὸν ἀπὸ νησαίων τ’ ὀρέων Λαέρτα τόκον, ἅμα δὲ Νι‐ ρέα, κάλλιστον Ἀχαιῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, antistrophe 13)

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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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