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νηλεής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νηλεής νηλεές

Structure: νηλεη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: v. nhlh/s.

Sense

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

  • Ῥείη δὲ δμηθεῖσα Κρόνῳ τέκε φαίδιμα τέκνα, Ἱστίην Δήμητρα καὶ Ἥρην χρυσοπέδιλον ἴφθιμόν τ’ Αἴδην, ὃσ ὑπὸ χθονὶ δώματα ναίει νηλεὲσ ἦτορ ἔχων, καὶ ἐρίκτυπον Ἐννοσίγαιον Ζῆνά τε μητιόεντα, θεῶν πατέρ’ ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν, τοῦ καὶ ὑπὸ βροντῆσ πελεμίζεται εὐρεῖα χθών. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 44:1)
  • τῶν δ’ ἕτεροσ γαῖάν τε καὶ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσησ ἥσυχοσ ἀνστρέφεται καὶ μείλιχοσ ἀνθρώποισι, τοῦ δὲ σιδηρέη μὲν κραδίη, χάλκεον δέ οἱ ἦτορ νηλεὲσ ἐν στήθεσσιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 71:3)
  • αὐτόσ γε μὴν ὁ Ἀχιλλεύσ, καίπερ οὐ γλυκύθυμοσ ὢν οὐδ’ ἀγανόφρων ἀλλὰ δεινὸσ ἀνήρ, οἱο͂σ καὶ ἀναίτιον αἰτιάασθαι παρεῖχε τῷ Πατρόκλῳ σιωπῇ καταφέρειν αὐτοῦ πολλὰ τοιαῦτα νηλεέσ, οὐκ ἄρα σοί γε πατὴρ ἦν ἱππότα Πηλεὺσ οὐδὲ Θέτισ μήτηρ· (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 26 5:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ σῷ ποδαγὸσ ἑσπόμην πόσει πεδίον ἐπ’ ἄκρον, ἔνθ’ ἔκειτο νηλεὲσ κυνοσπάρακτον σῶμα Πολυνείκουσ ἔτι· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:8)
  • μάλα γὰρ μέγαν ἤλιτεσ ὁρ́κον, νηλεέσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 7:26)

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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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