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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

  • τοῦτο μόνον Ἀττικοὶ τῶν ἡδυσμάτων ἦδοσ καλοῦσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 762)
  • ἀλλὰ τί μύθων ἦδοσ; (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 22:24)
  • ἀλλὰ τί μύθων ἦδοσ; (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 5:31)
  • ἀλλ’ οὔ σφιν τῶν ἦδοσ, ἐπεὶ γλυκὺν ἐξεκένωσαν θυμὸν ἐσ εὐρεῖαν σχεδίαν στυγνοῦ Ἀχέροντοσ, ἄμναστοι δὲ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ ὄλβια τῆνα λιπόντεσ δειλοῖσ ἐν νεκύεσσι μακροὺσ αἰῶνασ ἔκειντο, εἰ μὴ κεῖνοσ ἀοιδὸσ ὁ Κήιοσ αἰόλα φωνέων βάρβιτον ἐσ πολύχορδον ἐν ἀνδράσι θῆκ’ ὀνομαστοὺσ ὁπλοτέροισ, τιμᾶσ δὲ καὶ ὠκέεσ ἔλλαχον ἵπποι, οἵ σφισιν ἐξ ἱερῶν στεφανηφόροι ἦλθον ἀγώνων. (Theocritus, Idylls, 22)
  • τόν με κατακτείναντα κατέκτανον, οὐ δέ μοι ἦδοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 331)

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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