ἥρως
Third declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἥρως
Structure:
ἡρω
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
Sense
- (Epic) A hero of the Trojan War: any of the major combatants of the Greek or Trojan forces.
- (classical) A hero or heroine of the ancient Greek religion: a human or demigod whose shrine was celebrated with chthonic rituals organized by local governments.
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.
- "ἃ δὲ Ἀμφιλόχου τε ἤκουσα ἐν Μαλλῷ, τοῦ ἡρ́ωοσ ὕπαρ διαλεχθέντοσ ^ μοι καὶ συμβουλεύσαντοσ περὶ τῶν ἐμῶν, καὶ ἃ εἶδον αὐτόσ, ἐθέλω ὑμῖν εἰπεῖν, εἶτα ἑξῆσ ἃ ἐν Περγάμῳ εἶδον καὶ ἃ ἤκουσα ἐν Πατάροισ. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 30:5)
- οἱ μὲν ἡρ́ωοσ οἰκουροῦ λέγουσιν, οἱ δ’ Ἡφαίστου τὸν ἔρωτα τοῦτον γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 10 4:2)
- οἱ μὲν ἡρ́ωοσ οἰκουροῦ λέγουσιν, οἱ δ’ Ἡφαίστου τὸν ἔρωτα τοῦτον γενέσθαι. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 10 12:2)
- "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)
- Αἴγιλα δ’ εἶναι δῆμον τῆσ Ἀττικῆσ ἀπὸ Αἰγίλου τινὸσ ἡρ́ωοσ ὠνομασμένον χελιδονίασ δὲ καλεῖσθαι τὰσ ἐρυθρομελαίνασ ἰσχάδασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 67 3:7)
