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ῥηξήνωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥηξήνωρ ῥηξήνορος

Structure: ῥηξηνορος (Stem)

Etym.: r(h/gnumi, a)nh/r

Sense

  1. breaking through armed ranks

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

  • ἁλίοιο γέροντοσ, ἦ τοι μὲν Φῶκον Ψαμάθη τέκε δῖα θεάων Αἰακοῦ ἐν φιλότητι διὰ χρυσέην Ἀφροδίτην, Πηλέι δὲ δμηθεῖσα θεὰ Θέτισ ἀργυρόπεζα γείνατ’ Ἀχιλλῆα ῥηξήνορα θυμολέοντα. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 110:2)
  • Ἕκτορ νῦν μὲν δὴ σάφα εἴσεαι οἰόθεν οἰο͂σ οἱοῖ καὶ Δαναοῖσιν ἀριστῆεσ μετέασι καὶ μετ’ Ἀχιλλῆα ῥηξήνορα θυμολέοντα. (Homer, Iliad, Book 7 21:9)
  • ἵππουσ δ’ Αὐτομέδοντα θοῶσ ζευγνῦμεν ἄνωγε, τὸν μετ’ Ἀχιλλῆα ῥηξήνορα τῖε μάλιστα, πιστότατοσ δέ οἱ ἔσκε μάχῃ ἔνι μεῖναι ὁμοκλήν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 11:10)
  • Ναυσίθοοσ δ’ ἔτεκεν Ῥηξήνορά τ’ Ἀλκίνοόν τε. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 7 7:10)

Synonyms

  1. breaking through armed ranks

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

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