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ἕρμαιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕρμαιον ἕρμαιου

Structure: ἑρμαι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a god-send, wind-fall, a gift of the god, a feast of Hermes

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἕρμαιον ἑρμαίω έ̔ρμαια
Genitive ἑρμαίου ἑρμαίοιν ἑρμαίων
Dative ἑρμαίῳ ἑρμαίοιν ἑρμαίοις
Accusative ἕρμαιον ἑρμαίω έ̔ρμαια
Vocative έ̔ρμαιον ἑρμαίω έ̔ρμαια

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

  • ἂν γὰρ εἰσέλθῃσ μετὰ Κτησίππου τοῦδε καὶ καθεζόμενοσ διαλέγῃ, οἶμαι μὲν καὶ αὐτόσ σοι πρόσεισι ‐ φιλήκοοσ γάρ, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, διαφερόντωσ ἐστίν, καὶ ἅμα, ὡσ Ἑρμαῖα ἄγουσιν, ἀναμεμειγμένοι ἐν ταὐτῷ εἰσιν οἵ τε νεανίσκοι καὶ οἱ παῖδεσ ‐ πρόσεισιν οὖν σοι. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 62:2)
  • Ἰφικλεῖ μὲν δὴ καὶ ἐσ τόδε ἔτι ἐναγίζουσιν ὡσ ἡρ́ωι, θεῶν δὲ τιμῶσιν Ἑρμῆν Φενεᾶται μάλιστα καὶ ἀγῶνα ἄγουσιν Ἕρμαια, καὶ ναόσ ἐστιν Ἑρμοῦ σφισι καὶ ἄγαλμα λίθου· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 16:1)
  • παρ’ ὅλην δὲ τὴν ὁδὸν ἦν ἰδεῖν ἑκατέρωθεν πολλαχοῦ ὥσπερ ἑρμαῖα πέτρον ἠλίβατον στρογγύλον, λεῖον ἱκανῶσ, ἐγγὺσ σφαιροειδοῦσ, τοῦ μέλανοσ καὶ σκληροῦ λίθου, ἐξ οὗ αἱ θυῖ̈αι γίνονται, ἐπὶ πέτρῳ κείμενον μείζονι καὶ ἐπ’ ἐκείνῳ πάλιν ἄλλον· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 99:2)
  • εἶθ’ ἡ Ἑρμαία ἄκρα τραχεῖα καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτῇ πόλισ ὁμώνυμοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 32:3)

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

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