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ἐναέριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐναέριος ἐναέριον

Structure: ἐναερι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in the air

Examples

  • τὴν γῆν, τὰ μὲν ὑποβρύχια, φωλεύοντα ἐν μυχῷ τῆσ ψάμμου, τὰ δὲ ἄνω ἐπιπολάζοντα, φύσαλοι καὶ ἀσπίδεσ καὶ ἔχιδναι καὶ κεράσται καὶ βουπρήστεισ καὶ ἀκοντίαι καὶ ἀμφίσβαιναι καὶ δράκοντεσ καὶ σκορπίων γένοσ διττόν, τὸ μὲν ἕτερον ἐπίγειόν τε καὶ πεζόν, ὑπέρμεγα καὶ πολυσφόνδυλον, θάτερον δὲ ἐναέριον καὶ πτηνόν, ὑμενόπτερον δὲ οἱᾶ ταῖσ ἀκρίσι καὶ τέττιξι καὶ νυκτερίσι τὰ πτερά. (Lucian, Dipsades 5:1)
  • μίξεωσ δὲ καὶ ἀφροδισίων καὶ γάμων πολλὴ αὐταῖσ ἡ ἐλευθερία, καὶ ὁ ἄρρην οὐ κατὰ τοὺσ ἀλεκτρυόνασ ἐπιβὰσ εὐθὺσ ἀπεπήδησεν, ἀλλ’ ἐποχεῖται τῇ θηλείᾳ ἐπὶ πολύ, κἀκείνη φέρει τὸν νυμφίον, καὶ συμπέτονται τὴν ἐναέριον ἐκείνην μῖξιν τῇ πτήσει μὴ διαφθείρουσαι. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 6:2)
  • ἄλλα, ξηροτροφικόν τε καὶ ὑγροτροφικὸν καὶ ἀερονομικὸν ἐπὶ ζῴων χερσαίων καὶ ἐνύγρων καὶ ἐναερίων ἐπιλέγει, ὥσπερ παρακελευόμενοσ τούτοισ τοῖσ ὀνοματοποιοῖσ φυλάττεσθαι τὴν καινότητα, γράφων καὶ κατὰ λέξιν τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 554)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπειδὴ τῇ γῇ περίκειται τὸ ὕδωρ, οὐκ ἔστι δ’ ἔνυδρον ζῷον ὁ ἄνθρωποσ, ἀλλὰ χερσαῖον καὶ ἐναέριον καὶ πολλοῦ κοινωνικὸν φωτόσ, ἐποίησεν ἐξοχὰσ ἐν τῇ γῇ πολλὰσ καὶ εἰσοχάσ, ὥστ’ ἐν αἷσ μὲν ἀπολαμβάνεσθαι τὸ σύμπαν ἢ καὶ τὸ πλέον ὕδωρ ἀποκρύπτον τὴν ὑπ’ αὐτῷ γῆν, ἐν αἷσ δ’ ἐξέχειν τὴν γῆν ἀποκρύπτουσαν ὑφ’ ἑαυτῇ τὸ ὕδωρ, πλὴν ὅσον χρήσιμον τῷ ἀνθρωπείῳ γένει καὶ τοῖσ περὶ αὐτὸ ζῴοισ καὶ φυτοῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 71:6)

Synonyms

  1. in the air

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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