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δίαιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δίαιμος δίαιμον

Structure: διαιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ai(=ma

Sense

  1. blood-stained, blood

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

  • στένει δὲ καί τισ ἀμφὶ τὸν εὔροον Εὐρώταν Λάκαινα πολυδάκρυτοσ ἐν δόμοισ κόρα, πολιάν τ’ ἐπὶ κρᾶτα μάτηρ τέκνων θανόντων τίθεται χέρα δρύπτεται παρειάν, δίαιμον ὄνυχα τιθεμένα σπαραγμοῖσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, epode2)
  • παρέπεται δὲ δύσπνοια, ἀγρυπνίη, ἀποσιτίη, μήλων ἐρύθημα φαιδρὸν, βὴξ ξηρὴ, πτύελα μόλισ ἀναγόμενα, φλέγμα ἢ χολῶδεσ, ἢ δίαιμον κατακορέωσ , ἢ ὑπόξανθον· καὶ τάδε τάξιν οὐκ ἴσχοντα, ἄλλοτε δὲ ἄλλα ἐπιφοιτέοντα καὶ ἀπογιγνόμενα· κάκιον δὲ ἁπάντων, ἢν τὸ δίαιμον ἐκλείπῃ, γίγνονται δὲ παράληροι· ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ κωματώδεεσ , καὶ ἐν τῇ καταφορῇ παράφοροι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 126)
  • ἢν δέ τι ἀνάγηται, φλέγμα ἀφρῶδεσ, ἢ ὑπόχολον κατακορὲσ, ἢ δίαιμον ἀνθηρὸν σφόδρα· τόδε ἔστι τὸ δίαιμον τῶν ἄλλων κάκιον. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 14)

Synonyms

  1. blood-stained

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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