Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐννύχιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐννύχιος ἐννύχιᾱ ἐννύχιον

Structure: ἐννυχι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nu/c

Sense

  1. in the night, by night, nightly, dwellers in the realms of Night, the dead

Examples

  • ἐκεῖνοσ οὔτε στεφάνων οὔτε βαθεῖαν κυλίκων νεῖμεν ἐμοὶ τέρψιν ὁμιλεῖν, οὔτε γλυκὺν αὐλῶν ὄτοβον, δύσμοροσ, οὔτ’ ἐννυχίαν τέρψιν ἰαύειν. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 21)
  • αἱ δ’ ἀνὰ μέσσαν ἀκτῖν’, αἱ δ’ ἐννυχιᾶν ἀπὸ Ῥιπᾶν. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, epode2)

Synonyms

  1. in the night

Related

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

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