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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἦδος ή̓δει ή̓δη
Genitive ή̓δους ή̓δοιν ἠδέων
Dative ή̓δει ή̓δοιν ή̓δεσιν*
Accusative ἦδος ή̓δει ή̓δη
Vocative ῆ̓δος ή̓δει ή̓δη

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

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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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