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ἑδανός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑδανός ἑδανή ἑδανόν

Structure: ἑδαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prob. from a(dei=n, h(du/s

Sense

  1. sweet, delicious

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ἑδανός ἑδανή ἑδανόν
Genitive ἑδανοῦ ἑδανῆς ἑδανοῦ
Dative ἑδανῷ ἑδανῇ ἑδανῷ
Accusative ἑδανόν ἑδανήν ἑδανόν
Vocative ἑδανέ ἑδανή ἑδανόν
DualN/A/V ἑδανώ ἑδανᾱ́ ἑδανώ
G/D ἑδανοῖν ἑδαναῖν ἑδανοῖν
PluralNominative ἑδανοί ἑδαναί ἑδανά
Genitive ἑδανῶν ἑδανῶν ἑδανῶν
Dative ἑδανοῖς ἑδαναῖς ἑδανοῖς
Accusative ἑδανούς ἑδανᾱ́ς ἑδανά
Vocative ἑδανοί ἑδαναί ἑδανά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἑδανός ἑδανοῦ ἑδανώτερος ἑδανωτεροῦ ἑδανώτατος ἑδανωτατοῦ
Adverb ἑδανώς ἑδανώτερον ἑδανώτατα

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

  • τί κακόν, ὦ γύναι, χθονοτρεφὲσ ἐδανὸν ἢ ποτὸν πασαμένα ῥυτᾶσ ἐξ ἁλὸσ ὀρόμενον τόδ’ ἐπέθου θύοσ, δημοθρόουσ τ’ ἀράσ; (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. sweet

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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