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ἑδανός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: hedanos

Principal Part: ἑδανός ἑδανή ἑδανόν

Structure: ἑδαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prob. from ἁδεῖν, ἡδύς

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 ἑδανά ἑδανώ
G/D ἑδανοῖν ἑδαναῖν ἑδανοῖν
PluralNominative ἑδανοί ἑδαναί ἑδανά
Genitive ἑδανῶν ἑδανῶν ἑδανῶν
Dative ἑδανοῖς ἑδαναῖς ἑδανοῖς
Accusative ἑδανούς ἑδανάς 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

  • "ἀμβροσίῃ μὲν πρῶτον ἀπὸ χροὸς ἱμερόεντος λύματα πάντα κάθηρεν, ἀλείψατο δὲ χρόα λευκὸν ἀμβροσίῃ ἑδανῷ τό,6 τό ῥά οἱ τεθυωμένον ἠε῀ν τοῦ καὶ κινυμένοιο Διὸς ποτὶ χαλκοβατὲς δῶ ἐ`μπης ἐς γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἵκετ ἀυτμή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:15)
  • ἔνθα δέ μιν Χάριτες λοῦσαν καὶ χρῖσαν ἐλαίῳ ἀμβρότῳ, οἱᾶ θεοὺς ἐπενήνοθεν αἰὲν ἐόντας, ἀμβροσίῳ ἑδανῷ, τό ῥά οἱ τεθυωμένον ἠε῀ν. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 7:6)
  • ἀμβροσίῃ μὲν πρῶτον ἀπὸ χροὸς ἱμερόεντος λύματα πάντα κάθηρεν, ἀλείψατο δὲ λίπ ἐλαίῳ ἀμβροσίῳ ἑδανῷ, τό ῥά οἱ τεθυωμένον ἠε῀ν: (Homer, Iliad, Book 14 17:8)

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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