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δείελος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δείελος

Structure: δειελ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dei/lh

Sense

  1. of or belonging to evening, eventide
  2. late evening

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

  • ὢ πόποι ἀργυρότοξε Διὸσ τέκοσ οὐ σύ γε βουλὰσ εἰρύσαο Κρονίωνοσ, ὅ τοι μάλα πόλλ’ ἐπέτελλε Τρωσὶ παρεστάμεναι καὶ ἀμύνειν, εἰσ ὅ κεν ἔλθῃ δείελοσ ὀψὲ δύων, σκιάσῃ δ’ ἐρίβωλον ἄρουραν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 18:3)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to evening

  2. late evening

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

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