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ἡρῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡρῷος ἡρῷη ἡρῷον

Structure: ἡρῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: contr. for h(rw/i+os

Sense

the heroic measure, hexameter, the dactyl

Declension

First/Second declension

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ἡρῷος	ἡρῴη	ἡρῷον
	Genitive	ἡρῴου	ἡρῴης	ἡρῴου
	Dative	ἡρῴῳ	ἡρῴῃ	ἡρῴῳ
	Accusative	ἡρῷον	ἡρῴην	ἡρῷον
	Vocative	ἡρῷε	ἡρῴη	ἡρῷον
Dual	N/A/V	ἡρῴω	ἡρῴᾱ	ἡρῴω
Dual	G/D	ἡρῴοιν	ἡρῴαιν	ἡρῴοιν
Plural	Nominative	ἡρῷοι	ἡρῷαι	ἡρῷα
	Genitive	ἡρῴων	ἡρῳῶν	ἡρῴων
	Dative	ἡρῴοις	ἡρῴαις	ἡρῴοις
	Accusative	ἡρῴους	ἡρῴᾱς	ἡρῷα
	Vocative	ἡρῷοι	ἡρῷαι	ἡρῷα

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἡρῷος ἡρῴου	ἡρῳότερος ἡρῳοτέρου	ἡρῳότατος ἡρῳοτάτου
Adverb	ἡρῴως	ἡρῳότερον	ἡρῳότατα

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

πρὸσ βαλανείῳ ψυχρῷ καὶ φαύλῳ κεκοσμημένον ἰδὼν ἡρῷον λαμπρῶσ ὡσ ἐξῆλθεν λελουμένοσ κακῶσ ’ οὐ θαυμάζω ἔφη, ’ ὅτι πολλοὶ ἀνάκεινται πίνακεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 441)
’ ἐκ ταύτησ γὰρ τῆσ πίστεωσ τὸ τρίμετρον καλούμενον ἀνατίθησι τῷ θεῷ, φάσκων τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τοῦθ’ ἑκάτερον εἶναι τῶν μέτρων, ὅτι μακρῶν μὲν τῶν πρώτων δύο συλλαβῶν λεγομένων ’ ἰὴ παιὰν ’ ἡρῷον γίνεται, βραχέωσ δὲ λεχθεισῶν ἰαμβεῖον, διὰ δὲ τοῦτο δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὸν χωλίαμβον ἀναθετέον αὐτῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce, chapter 62 1:12)
τὸν δ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ ψόφου ταραχθέντα καὶ σπασάμενοντὸ παρακείμενον ἐγχειρίδιον, ὥσ τινοσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἐχθροῦ βαδίζοντοσ, πατάξαι καὶ καταβαλεῖν τὴν παρθένον, ἐκ δὲ τῆσ πληγῆσ ἀποθανοῦσαν αὐτὴν οὐκ ἐᾶν τὸν Παυσανίαν ἡσυχάζειν, ἀλλὰ νύκτωρ εἴδωλον αὐτῷ φοιτῶσαν εἰσ τὸν ὕπνον ὀργῇ λέγειν τόδε τὸ ἡρῷον· (Plutarch, , chapter 6 5:1)
αὐτοῦ δ’ ἦν καὶ τὸ τοῦ Ἀνδροκράτουσ ἡρῷον ἐγγύσ, ἄλσει πυκνῶν καὶ συσκίων δένδρων περιεχόμενον. (Plutarch, , chapter 11 7:2)
"καὶ οἱ Χῖοι πάλιν ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκετῶν ἀδικούμενοι καὶ διαρπαζόμενοι μνησθέντεσ τῆσ τοῦ τετελευτηκότοσ ἐπιεικείασ ἡρῷον ἱδρύσαντο κατὰ τὴν χώραν καὶ ἐπωνόμασαν ἡρ́ωοσ εὐμενοῦσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:80)
τοῦτο τὸ μέτρον ἡρῷόν ἐστιν ἑξάπουν τέλειον, κατὰ δάκτυλον πόδα βαινόμενον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 44)

Synonyms

the heroic measure
- ἡρωικός (the heroic verse, the hexameter)

ἡρῷον (the temple or chapel of a hero)
πύρριχος (red)
Μαῖρα (the sparkler)
ἀπαντικρύ (right opposite)
Ὀλυμπιεῖον (the temple of Olympian Zeus)
Δίκτυννα (goddess of the chase)
ταυροπόλος (worshipped at Tauris)
λαφύστιος (gluttonous)
ἑρκεῖος (of or in the)
Ἀσκληπίειος (of)
Ἀσκληπιεῖον (the temple of Asclepius)
σώτειρα (Juno Sospita))
Αἰγυπτιστί (in the Egyptian tongue)
ἔλευσις (coming)
ἐπίκλησις (a surname or additional name)
Εἰλήθυια ()
Λύκαια ()
Κέρκωψ (the Cercopes)
Ταναγραῖος (a man of Tanagra)
σύμβωμος (worshipped on a common altar)
ἀγριέλαιος (of a wild olive)
μουσεῖον (a home of music or poetry)
Μούσειος (of or belonging to the Muses)
σκῶλος (a pointed stake)
Ἐφέσια (the feast of Ephesian Artemis)
ἰφιγένεια (strong-born)
Μαίναλον (Mount Maenalus)
Δελφίνιον (a temple of Apollo)
χαλκίοικος (dwelling in a brasen house)
Λητῷος (of or born from Leto)

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

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the heroic measure

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