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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

  • εἰ θέμισ ἐστί μοι τὰν ἀφανῆ θεὸν καὶ σὲ λιταῖσ σεβίζειν, ἐννυχίων ἄναξ, Αἰδωνεῦ Αἰδωνεῦ, λίσσωμαι ἄπονα μήτ’ ἐπὶ βαρυαχεῖ ξένον ἐξανύσαι μόρῳ τὰν παγκευθῆ κάτω νεκρῶν πλάκα καὶ Στύγιον δόμον. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, strophe 11)
  • εἰσ τὴν αὐτήν ὦ στοναχῶν δακρύων τε καὶ ἐννυχίων μελεδώνων ὦ Νόννησ ζαθέησ τετρυμένα γυῖα πόνοισι ποῦ ποτ’ ἐήν, νηὸσ μόχθων λύσε γῆρασ ἄκαμπτον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 571)

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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