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ἑσπερίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑσπερίς ἑσπερίδος

Structure: ἑσπεριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Hesperides, in the west

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

  • τὸν μὲν οὖν Ἕσπερον θυγατέρα γεννήσαντα τὴν ὀνομαζομένην Ἑσπερίδα συνοικίσαι τἀδελφῷ, ἀφ’ ἧσ τὴν χώραν Ἑσπερῖτιν ὀνομασθῆναι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 27 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. the Hesperides

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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