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ἡμερίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμερίς ἡμερίδος

Structure: ἡμεριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of h(/meros

Sense

  1. the cultivated vine

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

  • "ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲ δρυὸσ οὐδὲ μορίασ οὐδ’ ἣν Ὅμηροσ ἡμερίδα σεμνύνων προσεῖπεν ἀκαλλέστερον ἔρνοσ οὐδὲ φαυλότερον ἡγοῦμαι φυτὸν ἄνθρωπον, ὦ φίλε Δαφναῖε, βλαστήσεωσ ὁρμὴν ἔχοντα διαφαίνουσαν ὡρ́αν καὶ κάλλοσ ἅμα σώματοσ καὶ ψυχῆσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 14 1:8)
  • μηδ’ ἡμεῖσ οὖν τὴν ποιητικὴν ἡμερίδα τῶν Μουσῶν ἐκκόπτωμεν μηδ’ ἀφανίζωμεν, ἀλλ’ ὅπου μὲν ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ ἀκράτου πρὸσ δόξαν αὐθάδωσ θρασυνόμενον ἐξυβρίζει καὶ ὑλομανεῖ τὸ μυθῶδεσ αὐτῆσ καὶ θεατρικόν, ἐπιλαμβανόμενοι κολούωμεν καὶ πιέζωμεν· (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 1 20:3)

Synonyms

  1. the cultivated vine

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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