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ἡδυμελής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡδυμελής ἡδυμελές

Structure: ἡδυμελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: me/los

Sense

  1. sweet-strained, sweet-singing

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἡδυμελής ἡδύμελες
Genitive ἡδυμελούς ἡδυμέλους
Dative ἡδυμελεί ἡδυμέλει
Accusative ἡδυμελή ἡδύμελες
Vocative ἡδυμελές ἡδύμελες
DualN/A/V ἡδυμελεί ἡδυμέλει
G/D ἡδυμελοίν ἡδυμέλοιν
PluralNominative ἡδυμελείς ἡδυμέλη
Genitive ἡδυμελών ἡδυμέλων
Dative ἡδυμελέσιν* ἡδυμέλεσιν*
Accusative ἡδυμελείς ἡδυμέλη
Vocative ἡδυμελείς ἡδυμέλη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἡδυμελής ἡδυμελούς ἡδυμελέστερος ἡδυμελεστέρου ἡδυμελέστατος ἡδυμελεστάτου
Adverb ἡδυμελέως ἡδυμελέστερον ἡδυμελέστατα

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

  • τὴν δ’ ἡδυμελῆ ξύμφωνον ἀηδόνα Μούσαισ κατάλειφ’ ἡμῖν δεῦρ’ ἐκβιβάσασ, ἵνα παίσωμεν μετ’ ἐκείνησ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode, anapests2)
  • "πηκταὶ δὲ λύραι καὶ μαγάδιδεσ τὰ τ’ ἐν Ἕλλησι ξόαν’ ἡδυμελῆ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. sweet-strained

Similar forms

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

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