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ἐναέριος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: enaerios

Principal Part: ἐναέριος ἐναέριον

Structure: ἐναερι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. in the air

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἐναέριος ἐναέριον
Genitive ἐναερίου ἐναερίου
Dative ἐναερίῳ ἐναερίῳ
Accusative ἐναέριον ἐναέριον
Vocative ἐναέριε ἐναέριον
DualN/A/V ἐναερίω ἐναερίω
G/D ἐναερίοιν ἐναερίοιν
PluralNominative ἐναέριοι ἐναέρια
Genitive ἐναερίων ἐναερίων
Dative ἐναερίοις ἐναερίοις
Accusative ἐναερίους ἐναέρια
Vocative ἐναέριοι ἐναέρια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἐναέριος ἐναερίου ἐναεριότερος ἐναεριοτέρου ἐναεριότατος ἐναεριοτάτου
Adverb ἐναερίως ἐναεριότερον ἐναεριότατα

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

  • 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

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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