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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ληναῖος ληναίᾱ ληναῖον
Genitive ληναίου ληναίᾱς ληναίου
Dative ληναίῳ ληναίᾱͅ ληναίῳ
Accusative ληναῖον ληναίᾱν ληναῖον
Vocative ληναῖε ληναίᾱ ληναῖον
DualN/A/V ληναίω ληναίᾱ ληναίω
G/D ληναίοιν ληναίαιν ληναίοιν
PluralNominative ληναῖοι ληναῖαι ληναῖα
Genitive ληναίων ληναιῶν ληναίων
Dative ληναίοις ληναίαις ληναίοις
Accusative ληναίους ληναίᾱς ληναῖα
Vocative ληναῖοι ληναῖαι ληναῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ληναῖος ληναίου ληναιότερος ληναιοτέρου ληναιότατος ληναιοτάτου
Adverb ληναίως ληναιότερον ληναιότατα

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

  • αὐτοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν οὑπὶ Ληναίῳ τ’ ἀγών, κοὔπω ξένοι πάρεισιν· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:5)
  • "εἰ γὰρ εἰε͂ν ἄνθρωποι ἄγριοι οἱούσ πέρυσι Φερεκράτησ ὁ ποιητὴσ ἐδίδαξεν ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 59 2:1)
  • ἔπειτα Διονυσίων τῶν ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ· (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 57 1:3)
  • ὅταν ἡ πομπὴ ᾖ τῷ Διονύσῳ ἐν Πειραιεῖ καὶ οἱ κωμῳδοὶ καὶ οἱ τραγῳδοί, καὶ <ἡ> ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ πομπὴ καὶ οἱ τραγῳδοὶ καὶ οἱ κωμῳδοί, καὶ τοῖσ ἐν ἄστει Διονυσίοισ ἡ πομπὴ καὶ οἱ παῖδεσ καὶ ὁ κῶμοσ καὶ οἱ κωμῳδοὶ καὶ οἱ τραγῳδοί, καὶ Θαργηλίων τῇ πομπῇ καὶ τῷ ἀγῶνι, μὴ ἐξεῖναι μήτε ἐνεχυράσαι μήτε λαμβάνειν ἕτερον ἑτέρου, μηδὲ τῶν ὑπερημέρων, ἐν ταύταισ ταῖσ ἡμέραισ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 15:1)
  • πρὸσ ἀνθρώπουσ οἷσ μήτε παιδεία ἐστὶν μήτε δικαστήρια μήτε νόμοι μηδὲ ἀνάγκη μηδεμία διὰ παντὸσ ἀναγκάζουσα ἀρετῆσ ἐπιμελεῖσθαι, ἀλλ’ εἰε͂ν ἄγριοί τινεσ οἱοῖ́περ οὓσ πέρυσιν Φερεκράτησ ὁ ποιητὴσ ἐδίδαξεν ἐπὶ Ληναίῳ. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 147:1)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to the wine-press

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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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