Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ληναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ληναῖος ληναῖη ληναῖον

Structure: ληναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lhno/s

Sense

  1. belonging to the wine-press
  2. god of the wine-press
  3. the Lenaea
  4. the Lenaeum

Examples

  • ὅσ γ’ ἐμὲ τὸν τλήμονα Λήναια χορηγῶν ἀπέλυσ’ ἄδειπνον. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, strophe2)
  • "σὺ δὲ μᾶλλον,1 ἐν Ἀθήναισ μένων, εὐδαιμονίζεισ τὰσ Θεοφράστου θέσεισ ἀκούων, θύμα καὶ εὔζωμα καὶ τοὺσ καλοὺσ ἐσθίων στρεπτούσ, Λήναια καὶ Χύτρουσ θεωρῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 2 3:27)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to the wine-press

Related

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

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