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φαεθοντίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαεθοντίς φαεθοντίδος

Structure: φαεθοντιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: poet. fem. of fae/qwn

Sense

  1. shining

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

  • ἄρτι δὲ τούτων γινομένων ἠγγέλλοντο ὑπὸ τῶν σκοπῶν οἱ Νεφελοκένταυροι προσελαύνοντεσ, οὓσ ἔδει πρὸ τῆσ μάχησ ἐλθεῖν τῷ Φαέθοντι. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 18:2)
  • ἰδόντεσ δ’ ἡμᾶσ οἱ Νεφελοκένταυροι, μισθοφοροῦντεσ παρὰ τῷ Φαέθοντι, ἐπέπτησαν ἐπὶ τὴν ναῦν, καὶ μαθόντεσ ἐνσπόνδουσ ἀνεχώρησαν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 28:5)
  • κατεποντώθη, ἣν Ηἐλίῳ φαέθοντι ἐν μακάρων νήσοισι λιτὴ φύει εἰάρι γαίη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 481)
  • Εὐριπίδησ Φαέθοντι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 109 3:1)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἤν τισ Φαέθοντι θοῶσ λεύκ’ ὀστέα δείξῃ, οὗτόσ τοι Περσῶν τὸ μέγα κράτοσ ἔνδοθι θραύσει· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 1142)

Synonyms

  1. shining

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

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