Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νήνεμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νήνεμος νήνεμον

Structure: νηνεμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: nh-, a)/nemos

Sense

  1. without wind, breezeless, calm, hushed

Declension

First/Second 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

  • νήνεμον δ’ ἔστησ’ ὄχλον. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:10)
  • εἰ μὴ γὰρ οἶδμα νήνεμον γενήσεται, οὐκ ἔστιν ἐλπὶσ τοῖσ ξένοισ σωτηρίασ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:15)
  • οὕτωσ οἱ τῶν δαιμόνων λόγοι διὰ πάντων φερόμενοι μόνοισ ἐνηχοῦσι τοῖσ ἀθόρυβον ἦθοσ καὶ νήνεμον ἔχουσι τὴν ψυχὴν, οὓσ δὴ καὶ ἱεροὺσ καὶ δαιμονίουσ ἀνθρώπουσ καλοῦμεν. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 20 24:1)
  • τοῦ μέν θ’ ἱερὸν αἶψα, καὶ εὐρείασ ποταμοῖο ἠιόνασ πεδίον τε, βαθυρρείοντά τε Κάλπην δερκόμενοι παράμειβον, ὁμῶσ δ’ ἐπὶ ἤματι νύκτα νήνεμον ἀκαμάτῃσιν ἐπερρώοντ’ ἐλάτῃσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 10:26)
  • καὶ πότε δὴ νήεσσ1’ ἄφοβοσ πόροσ, εἰπέ, θάλασσα, εἰ καὶ ἐν ἀλκυόνων ἤμασι κλαυσόμεθα, ἀλκυόνων, αἷσ πόντοσ ἀεὶ στηρίξατο κῦμα νήνεμον, ὡσ κρῖναι χέρσον ἀπιστοτέρην; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2711)

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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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