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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

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

  • εἰ δέ τινεσ σκώπτουσιν ἀλαζονοχαυνοφλύαροι, ὡσ ἅδιστοσ ἔφυ πάντων Φοινίκιοσ οἶνοσ, οὐ προσέχω τὸν νοῦν αὐτοῖσ ἐστὶ δὲ καὶ Θάσιοσ πίνειν γενναῖοσ, ἐὰν ᾖ πολλαῖσ πρεσβεύων ἐτέων περικαλλέσιν ὡρ́αισ, οἶδα δὲ κἀξ ἄλλων πόλεων βοτρυοσταγῆ ἔρνη εἰπεῖν αἰνῆσαί τε καὶ οὔ με λέληθ’ ὀνομῆναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 52 3:4)
  • ὦ φίλτατ’ ἔρνη. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode12)

Synonyms

  1. a young sprout

  2. a child

Related

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

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