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εὐναῖος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: eunaios

Principal Part: εὐναῖος εὐναῖη εὐναῖον

Structure: εὐναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: εὐνή

Sense

  1. in one's bed, in its form
  2. wedded
  3. making one keep one's bed, brooding
  4. of or for anchorage, steadying, guiding a ship

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative εὐναῖος εὐναί῀α εὐναῖον
Genitive εὐναίου εὐναί῀ας εὐναίου
Dative εὐναίῳ εὐναί῀ᾳ εὐναίῳ
Accusative εὐναῖον εὐναί῀αν εὐναῖον
Vocative εὐναῖε εὐναί῀α εὐναῖον
DualN/A/V εὐναίω εὐναί῀α εὐναίω
G/D εὐναίοιν εὐναί῀αιν εὐναίοιν
PluralNominative εὐναῖοι εὐναῖαι εὐναῖα
Genitive εὐναίων εὐναῖῶν εὐναίων
Dative εὐναίοις εὐναί῀αις εὐναίοις
Accusative εὐναίους εὐναί῀ας εὐναῖα
Vocative εὐναῖοι εὐναῖαι εὐναῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εὐναῖος εὐναίου εὐναιότερος εὐναιοτέρου εὐναιότατος εὐναιοτάτου
Adverb εὐναίως εὐναιότερον εὐναιότατα

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

  • ὥστε ἐμεμψάμην ἔγωγε αὐτῶν τὸ πολὺ τῆς κλαγγῆς καὶ τὸ ὅμοιον ἐπὶ παντὶ ἴχνει, τῷ δρομαίῳ οὐ μεῖον ἢ τῷ εὐναίῳ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 3 3:1)
  • ὅσιος δ <ὅσιος> εὐναῖος γαμέτας συντηχθεὶς αὔραις ἀδόλοις γενναίας ψυχᾶς ἀλόχοιο. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, antistrophe 16)
  • χοροὶ μέλπουσιν ἐγκύκλιοι, πλησιστίοισι πνοαῖς συριζόντων κατὰ πρύμναν εὐναίων πηδαλίων αὔραις <σὺν> νοτίαις ἢ πνεύμασι Ζεφύρου, τὰν πολυόρνιθον ἐπ αἶ- αν, λευκὰν ἀκτάν, Ἀχιλῆ- ος δρόμους καλλισταδίους, ἄξεινον κατὰ πόντον· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, strophe 25)
  • εὐναίου δὲ λέχους κάλλος ἔχει Μίλητός τε Χίος τ ἔναλος πόλις Οἰνοπίωνος. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 50 1:5)
  • θαῦμα γὰρ κατέκλυον ὁμοῦ πρέπον κέλευμά πως κυνηγετῶν ἐγγὺς μολόντων θηρὸς εὐναίου τροφῆς, ὁμοῦ δ ἂν αὖτις αι φωρ γλώσσης ἐτεινετ εἰς κλοπὴν έναι: (Sophocles, Ichneutae 18:6)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν εὐναῖος ποιούμενος εὐνὴν ἐπὶ πολὺ ὅταν μὲν ᾖ ψύχη, ἐν εὐδιεινοῖς, ὅταν δὲ καύματα, ἐν παλισκίοις, τὸ δὲ ἐάρ καὶ τὸ μετόπωρον ἐν προσηλίοις: (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. in one's bed

  2. wedded

  3. making one keep one's bed

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

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