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Παιάν

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Παιάν Παιᾶνος

Structure: Παιαν (Stem)

Sense

  1. Paean or Paeon, Paeon
  2. a physician, healer, a saviour, deliverer
  3. a paean, a choral song, a hymn or chant
  4. a song of triumph, a war-song
  5. any solemn song or chant
  6. paean-singers
  7. a paeon

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

  • οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Νικάνορα μετὰ σαλπίγγων καὶ παιάνων προσῆγον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:25)
  • ἀντιψάλμουσ ᾠδὰσ ὕμνων τ’ Ἀσιητᾶν σοι βάρβαρον ἀχὰν δεσποίνᾳ γ’ ἐξαυδάσω, τὰν ἐν θρήνοισιν μοῦσαν νέκυσι μελομέναν, τὰν ἐν μολπαῖσ Αἵδασ ὑμνεῖ δίχα παιάνων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ δεισιδαίμων βούλεται μὲν οὐ δύναται δὲ χαίρειν οὐδ’ ἥδεσθαι, πόλισ δ’ ὁμοῦ μὲν θυμιαμάτων γέμει, ὁμοῦ δὲ παιάνων τε καὶ στεναγμάτων ἡ ψυχὴ τοῦ δεισιδαίμονοσ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 9 3:2)
  • "ἔπειτα πρεσβεύσασ ποτὲ μεθ’ ἑτέρων, καὶ πάντων κομιζομένων ἐπὶ τριήρουσ κατηγορούμενοσ ὑπὸ τῶν ἄλλων ὅτι στασιάζοι κατὰ τὴν ἀποδημίαν καὶ βλάπτοι τοῦ Διονυσίου τὰσ κοινὰσ πράξεισ καὶ σφόδρα τοῦ Διονυσίου ὀργισθέντοσ ἔφησεν τὴν διαφορὰν γενέσθαι αὑτῷ πρὸσ τοὺσ συμπρέσβεισ ὅτι μετὰ τὸ δεῖπνον ἐκεῖνοι μὲν τῶν Φρυνίχου καὶ Στησιχόρου, ἔτι δὲ Πινδάρου παιάνων τῶν ναυτῶν τινασ ἀνειληφότεσ ᾖδον, αὐτὸσ δὲ μετὰ τῶν βουλομένων τοὺσ ὑπὸ τοῦ ὁ Διονυσίου πεποιημένουσ διεπεραίνετο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 55 3:7)
  • τῷ γὰρ τοιούτῳ ὁ οἶκοσ ὁμοῦ μὲν θυμιαμάτων γέμει, ὁμοῦ δὲ παιάνων τε καὶ στεναγμάτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 17 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. Paean or Paeon

  2. a physician

  3. a paean

  4. paean-singers

  5. a paeon

Related

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

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