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ἐσθής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐσθής ἐσθές

Structure: ἐσθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e(/nnumi

Sense

  1. dress, clothing, raiment, the clothes of several
  2. clothes

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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅδε φύλαξ γὰρ τῶν ἐκεῖθεν ἄγγελοσ ἐσθεῖ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ δεῦρο πυρρίχην βλέπων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:16)
  • Λιτυέρσασ δὲ ἦν μὲν υἱὸσ Μίδου νόθοσ, Κελαινῶν δὲ τῶν ἐν Φρυγίᾳ βασιλεύσ, ἄγριοσ ἰδέσθαι καὶ ἀνήμεροσ ἄνθρωποσ, ἀδηφάγοσ δ’ ἰσχυρῶσ, λέγει δὲ περὶ αὐτοῦ Σωσίθεοσ ὁ τραγῳδιοποιὸσ ἐν δράματι Δάφνιδι ἢ Λιτυέρσᾳ οὕτωσ ἔσθει μὲν ἄρτουσ τρεῖσ, ὄνουσ, κανθηλίουσ τρεῖσ τῆσ βραχείασ ἡμέρασ πίνει δ’, ἕνα καλῶν μετρητήν, τὸν δεκάμφορον, πίθον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 81)
  • οὔ τι γὰρ ἠὺ τετυγμένον ἔσθει, ἀλλὰ τὰ κοινὰ γάρ, ὥσπερ ὁ δᾶμοσ, ζατεύει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 103)
  • ἄσημα δ’ αὐτῶν αὐτίκ’ ἀγνοίᾳ λαβὼν ἔσθει βορὰν ἄσωτον, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, γένει. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:13)

Synonyms

  1. clothes

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

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