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μακραίων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: μακραίων μακραίωνος

Structure: μακραιων (Stem)

Etym.: makro/s

Sense

  1. lasting long
  2. long-lived, aged, the immortals

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μακραίων μακραίωνε μακραίωνες
Genitive μακραίωνος μακραιώνοιν μακραιώνων
Dative μακραίωνι μακραιώνοιν μακραίωσιν*
Accusative μακραίωνα μακραίωνε μακραίωνας
Vocative μακραίων μακραίωνε μακραίωνες

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

  • τὴν μὲν γὰρ φιλότητι θεὸσ ποιήσατο νύμφην αὐτοῦ μακραίωνα καὶ ἀγρότιν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 8:24)
  • ἕκαστον αὐτῶν εἶναι καὶ θεῖον τὸ παράπαν ἐξ ἁπάσησ ἀνάγκησ, ἤ τινα μακραίωνα βίον ἔχειν ἱκανὸν ἑκάστῳ ζωῆσ, ἧσ οὐδέν τι πλείονοσ ἂν προσδεῖσθαί ποτε. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 63:1)

Synonyms

  1. lasting long

Similar forms

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

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