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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

  • ἔνθεν Ἔρισ, πολέμοιο προάγγελον ἔρνοσ ἑλοῦσα μῆλον, ἀριζήλων ἐφράσσατο δήνεα μόχθων. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 127)
  • δεῦρο διακρίνων προφερέστερον εἶδοσ ὀπωπῆσ φαιδροτέρῃ τόδε μῆλον, ἐπήρατον ἔρνοσ, ὀπάσσαισ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 165)
  • εἴ με διακρίνων προφερέστερον ἔρνοσ ὀπάσσῃσ, πάσησ ἡμετέρησ Ἀσίησ ἡγήτορα θήσω. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 176)
  • καὶ τὸ παράδειγμα ἡμῖν παρὰ τῶν γεωργῶν, οἳ τὰ φυτὰ μέχρι μὲν πρόσγεια καὶ νήπιά ἐστι, σκέπουσιν καὶ περιφράττουσιν ὡσ μὴ βλάπτοιντο ὑπὸ τῶν πνευμάτων, ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἤδη παχύνηται τὸ ἔρνοσ, τηνικαῦτα περιτέμνουσίν τε τὰ περιττὰ καὶ παραδιδόντεσ αὐτὰ τοῖσ ἀνέμοισ δονεῖν καὶ διασαλεύειν καρπιμώτερα ἐξεργάζονται. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 20:10)
  • τίσ ἀθανάτων ἢ βροτῶν τοιοῦτον ἔρνοσ θρέψεν ἐν ποίᾳ χθονί; (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 7:4)

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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