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ἔρνος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔρνος ἔρνεος

Structure: ἐρνο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a young sprout, shoot, scion, a young plant
  2. a child, a scion

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔρνος έ̓ρνει έ̓ρνη
Genitive έ̓ρνους έ̓ρνοιν ἐρνέων
Dative έ̓ρνει έ̓ρνοιν έ̓ρνεσιν*
Accusative ἔρνος έ̓ρνει έ̓ρνη
Vocative έ̓ρνος έ̓ρνει έ̓ρνη

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

  • προφρόνων Μοισᾶν τύχοιμεν, κεῖνον ἅψαι πυρσὸν ὕμνων καὶ Μελίσσῳ, παγκρατίου στεφάνωμ’ ἐπάξιον, ἔρνεϊ Τελεσιάδα. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 4 15:1)
  • "καὶ γὰρ ἄλλα πάμπολλα μονονοὺ μέτροισ τισὶ καὶ σταθμοῖσ ἀκριβῶσ τὴν τροφὴν διανέμοντα τοῖσ ἀντιζύγοισ πετάλοισ ἰσότητα θαυμαστὴν καὶ τάξιν ἀποδίδωσιν ἔτι δ’ ἀπιθανώτεροι τούτων εἰσὶν οἱ τὸ κάλλοσ καὶ τὴν εὐφυϊάν ἀγαπῆσαι τοὺσ παλαιούσ, ὡσ Ὅμηρον ἔρνεϊ φοίνικοσ ἀπεικάσαντα τὴν ὡρ́αν τῆσ Φαιακίδοσ, ὑπονοοῦντεσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 4:3)
  • τὸν ἐπεὶ θρέψαν θεοὶ ἔρνεϊ ἶσον, καί μιν ἔφην ἔσσεσθαι ἐν ἀνδράσιν οὔ τι χέρηα πατρὸσ ἑοῖο φίλοιο, δέμασ καὶ εἶδοσ ἀγητόν, τὸν δέ τισ ἀθανάτων βλάψε φρένασ ἔνδον ἐί̈σασ ἠέ τισ ἀνθρώπων· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 17:7)
  • ὃ δ’ ἀνέδραμεν ἔρνεϊ ἶσοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 4:18)
  • ὃ δ’ ἀνέδραμεν ἔρνεϊ ἶσοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 40:5)

Synonyms

  1. a young sprout

  2. a child

Related

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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