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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

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

  • ὁ δ’ Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆσ φιλοσοφίασ προαναφωνήσασ ἔστιν ἀνάγκησ χρῆμα, θεῶν ψήφισμα παλαιόν, εὖτὲ τισ ἀμπλακίῃσι φόνῳ φίλα γυῖα μιήνῃ, δαίμονεσ οἵ τε μακραίωνοσ λελόγχασι βίοιο· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 17 7:2)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἐν ταῖσ ξυμφοραῖσ ταῖσ νῦν νομίζει πρόσ γ’ ἐμοῦ πεπονθέναι λόγοισιν εἴτ’ ἔργοισιν εἰσ βλάβην φέρον, οὔτοι βίου μοι τοῦ μακραίωνοσ πόθοσ, φέροντι τήνδε βάξιν. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode2)

Synonyms

  1. lasting long

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

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