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ἔβενος

Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔβενος ἐβένου

Structure: ἐβεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. ebony tree, wood

Declension

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 ἔβενοσ, ὢ χρυσόσ, ὢ ἐκ λευκῶ ἐλέφαντοσ αἰετοὶ οἰνοχόον Κρονίδᾳ Διὶ παῖδα φέροντεσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 138)
  • καὶ ἡ σωφροσύνη γίγνηται παρ’ ὑμῖν, τοσούτῳ ἔλαττον ἔσται τό τε ἀργύριον καὶ τὸ χρυσίον καὶ τὰ ἐλεφάντινα σκεύη καὶ τὰ ἠλέκτρινα καὶ κρύσταλλοσ καὶ θύον καὶ ἔβενοσ καὶ ὁ τῶν γυναικῶν κόσμοσ καὶ τὰ ποικίλματα καὶ αἱ βαφαὶ καὶ ξύμπαντα ἁπλῶσ τὰ νῦν ἐν τῇ πόλει τίμια καὶ περιμάχητα, ἐλαττόνων αὐτῶν δεήσεσθε· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 43:4)
  • τοῖσ δὲ ἀνθρώποισ τὸ ἀρχαῖον, ὁπόσα καὶ ἡμεῖσ καταμαθεῖν ἐδυνήθημεν, τοσάδε ἦν ἀφ’ ὧν τὰ ξόανα ἐποιοῦντο, ἔβενοσ, κυπάρισσοσ, αἱ κέδροι, τὰ δρύινα, ἡ μῖλαξ, ὁ λωτόσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 3:1)
  • πλεονάζει δὲ τῶν φυτῶν ὅ τε φοῖνιξ καὶ ἡ περσέα καὶ ὁ ἔβενοσ καὶ ἡ κερατία· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 3:16)

Synonyms

  1. ebony tree

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