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ἡμιέλλην

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιέλλην ηνος

Structure: ἡμιελλην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a half-Greek

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

  • ἀλλὰ Ζεὺσ ἔκρυψε χολωσάμενοσ φρεσὶν ᾗσιν, ὅττι μιν ἐξαπάτησε Προμηθεὺσ ἀγκυλομήτησ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 7:4)
  • οὗτοσ μὲν πανάριστοσ, ὃσ αὐτὸσ πάντα νοήσῃ φρασσάμενοσ, τά κ’ ἔπειτα καὶ ἐσ τέλοσ ᾖσιν ἀμείνω· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 36:1)
  • σοὶ δ’ εἰ πλούτου θυμὸσ ἐέλδεται ἐν φρεσὶν ᾗσιν, ὧδ’ ἔρδειν, καὶ ἔργον ἐπ’ ἔργῳ ἐργάζεσθαι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 45:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δή ῥ’ ἐνιαυτὸσ ἐήν, περὶ δ’ ἔτραπον ὡρ͂αι μηνῶν φθινόντων, περὶ δ’ ἤματα πόλλ’ ἐτελέσθη, ἣ δ’ ἔτεκ’ ἐννέα κούρασ ὁμόφρονασ, ᾗσιν ἀοιδὴ μέμβλεται ἐν στήθεσσιν, ἀκηδέα θυμὸν ἐχούσαισ, τυτθὸν ἀπ’ ἀκροτάτησ κορυφῆσ νιφόεντοσ Ὀλύμπου. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 8:3)
  • τῇσι μὲν οὖν πλείστῃσιν ἐν τοῖσι πυρετοῖσι γυναικεῖα ἐπεφαίνετο καὶ παρθένοισι πολλῇσι τότε πρῶτον ἐγένετο‧ ἔστι δ’ ᾗσιν ᾑμορράγησεν ἐκ Ῥινῶν‧ ἔστι δ’ ὅτε καὶ ἐκ Ῥινῶν καὶ τὰ γυναικεῖα τῇσιν αὐτῇσιν ἐπεφαίνετο, οἱο͂ν τῇ Δαιθάρσεοσ θυγατρὶ παρθένῳ ἐπεφάνη τότε πρῶτον καὶ ἐκ Ῥινῶν λάβρον ἐρρύη, καὶ οὐδεμίαν οἰδα ἀποθανοῦσαν, ᾗσι τούτων τι καλῶσ γένοιτο. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 145)

Synonyms

  1. a half-Greek

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

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