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ἦδος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἦδος ἦδεος

Structure: ἠδο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a(nda/nw

Sense

  1. delight, enjoyment, pleasure, pleasure from or in, delight, from?

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

  • "Μελάνθιοσ δὲ τῶν ἀπολαύσεων ἐρῶν, ηὔξατο τῆσ μακραύχενοσ ὄρνιθοσ τὸν τράχηλον ἔχειν, ἵν’ ὅτι πλεῖστον τοῖσ ἡδέσιν ἐνδιατρίβῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 10 1:3)
  • οὐδὲ τὰ μέτρια καὶ τὰ ἀναγκαῖα πλησιάζουσι τοῖσ ἡδέσιν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 59:1)
  • ἀλλὰ χαίρει ὁ ἐν τῷ μέσῳ ἄνευ ἐπιθυμίασ τοῖσ φύσει ἡδέσιν, οἳ δὲ πᾶσι τοῖσ ἐξιστᾶσι τῆσ φύσει ἕξεωσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 119:3)
  • ἔστιν δὲ καὶ τὸ σύνηθεσ καὶ τὸ ἐθιστὸν ἐν τοῖσ ἡδέσιν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 10 18:3)
  • τίθημι γὰρ καὶ τὴν τῶν κακῶν ἢ φαινομένων κακῶν ἢ ἀπαλλαγὴν ἢ ἀντὶ μείζονοσ ἐλάττονοσ μετάληψιν ἐν τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ αἱρετὰ γάρ πωσ, καὶ τὴν τῶν λυπηρῶν ἢ φαινομένων <λυπηρῶν> ἢ ἀπαλλαγὴν ἢ μετάληψιν ἀντὶ μειζόνων ἐλαττόνων ἐν τοῖσ ἡδέσιν ὡσαύτωσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 10 18:7)

Synonyms

  1. delight

Related

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

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