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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

  • πίομαι, ὦ Ληναῖε, πολὺ πλέον ἢ πίε Κύκλωψ νηδὺν ἀνδρομέων πλησάμενοσ κρεάων πίομαι, ὡσ ὄφελόν γε καὶ ἔγκαρον ἐχθροῦ ἀράξασ βρέγμα Φιλιππείησ ἐξέπιον κεφαλῆσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5191)
  • ἀλκυόσιν, Ληναῖε, μέλεισ τάχα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2921)

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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