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ἐλαφηβόλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαφηβόλος ἐλαφηβόλον

Structure: ἐλαφηβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/lafos, ba/llw

Sense

  1. shooting deer

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἐλαφηβόλος ἐλαφήβολον
Genitive ἐλαφηβόλου ἐλαφηβόλου
Dative ἐλαφηβόλῳ ἐλαφηβόλῳ
Accusative ἐλαφηβόλον ἐλαφήβολον
Vocative ἐλαφηβόλε ἐλαφήβολον
DualN/A/V ἐλαφηβόλω ἐλαφηβόλω
G/D ἐλαφηβόλοιν ἐλαφηβόλοιν
PluralNominative ἐλαφηβόλοι ἐλαφήβολα
Genitive ἐλαφηβόλων ἐλαφηβόλων
Dative ἐλαφηβόλοις ἐλαφηβόλοις
Accusative ἐλαφηβόλους ἐλαφήβολα
Vocative ἐλαφηβόλοι ἐλαφήβολα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἐλαφηβόλος ἐλαφηβόλου ἐλαφηβολότερος ἐλαφηβολοτέρου ἐλαφηβολότατος ἐλαφηβολοτάτου
Adverb ἐλαφηβόλως ἐλαφηβολότερον ἐλαφηβολότατα

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

  • γ# ἐν Δήλῳ ποτ’ ἔτικτε παῖδα Λατώ, Φοῖβον χρυσοκόμαν, ἄνακτ’ Ἀπόλλω,9 ἐλαφηβόλον τ’ ἀγροτέραν Ἄρτεμιν, ἃ γυναικῶν μέγ’ ἔχει κράτοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 506)
  • Ἄρτεμιν ἀείδω χρυσηλάκατον, κελαδεινήν, παρθένον αἰδοίην, ἐλαφηβόλον, ἰοχέαιραν, αὐτοκασιγνήτην χρυσαόρου Ἀπόλλωνοσ, ἣ κατ’ ὄρη σκιόεντα καὶ ἄκριασ ἠνεμοέσσασ ἄγρῃ τερπομένη παγχρύσεα τόξα τιταίνει πέμπουσα στονόεντα βέλη· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:1)
  • τοῖσι δὲ Πηλεί̈δησ ἁδινοῦ ἐξῆρχε γόοιο χεῖρασ ἐπ’ ἀνδροφόνουσ θέμενοσ στήθεσσιν ἑταίρου πυκνὰ μάλα στενάχων ὥσ τε λὶσ ἠϋγένειοσ, ᾧ ῥά θ’ ὑπὸ σκύμνουσ ἐλαφηβόλοσ ἁρπάσῃ ἀνὴρ ὕλησ ἐκ πυκινῆσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 29:6)

Synonyms

  1. shooting deer

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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