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κύανος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύανος κύανη κύανον

Structure: κυαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. cyanus, a dark-blue substance, blue steel
  2. the blue corn-flower

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative κύανος κύάνη κύανον
Genitive κυάνου κύάνης κυάνου
Dative κυάνῳ κύάνῃ κυάνῳ
Accusative κύανον κύάνην κύανον
Vocative κύανε κύάνη κύανον
DualN/A/V κυάνω κύάνᾱ κυάνω
G/D κυάνοιν κύάναιν κυάνοιν
PluralNominative κύανοι κύ́αναι κύανα
Genitive κυάνων κύανῶν κυάνων
Dative κυάνοις κύάναις κυάνοις
Accusative κυάνους κύάνᾱς κύανα
Vocative κύανοι κύ́αναι κύανα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective κύανος κυάνου κυανότερος κυανοτέρου κυανότατος κυανοτάτου
Adverb κυάνως κυανότερον κυανότατα

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

  • τοῖσ δ’ ἅμ’ Ἀλεξάνδροιο νέουσ ὄρπηκασ ἐλαίησ, ἠδὲ Πολυκλείτου πορφυρέην κύανον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 4, chapter 1 7:2)

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

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