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ἕσπερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕσπερος ἕσπερος ἕσπερον

Structure: ἑσπερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or at evening
  2. (masculine substantive) evening
  3. (masculine substantive) the evening star, Venus (shortened form of ἕσπερος ἀστήρ ‎(hésperos astḗr))
  4. western

Examples

  • ὁ ποιῶν Πλειάδα καὶ Ἕσπερον καὶ Ἀρκτοῦρον, καὶ ταμιεῖα νότου. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 9:9)
  • ἦ διανοίξεισ μαζουρὼθ ἐν καιρῷ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἕσπερον ἐπὶ κόμησ αὐτοῦ ἄξεισ αὐτά̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 38:32)
  • ὅστε ἀρυσάμενοσ ποταμῶν ἄπο αἰεναόντων, ὑψοῦ ὑπὲρ γαίησ ἀρθεὶσ ἀνέμοιο θυέλλῃ ἄλλοτε μέν θ’ ὑεί ποτὶ ἕσπερον, ἄλλοτ’ ἀήσι πυκνὰ Θρηικίου Βορέου νέφεα κλονέοντοσ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 61:8)
  • τὸν ἥλιον καὶ τὸν ἕσπερον πρύτανιν ἢ ἀστυνόμον, οὐκ οἶδα μὴ τοὺσ ἐλέγχοντασ τὰ τοιαῦτα τῶν λεγόντων καὶ ἀποφαινομένων ἀποδείκνυσιν ἀτοπωτέρουσ. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 34 10:1)
  • πᾶν ἐστίβηται πλευρὸν ἕσπερον νεῶν ἔχεισ οὖν; (Sophocles, Ajax, episode, kommos8)

Synonyms

  1. of or at evening

  2. evening

  3. western

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