Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σίντης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σίντης σίντου

Structure: σιντ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: si/nomai

Sense

  1. destructive, ravenous

Declension

First 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

  • ἐπί τε λῖν ἤγαγε δαίμων σίντην· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 47:6)
  • ὡσ δὲ λύκοι ἄρνεσσιν ἐπέχραον ἢ ἐρίφοισι σίνται ὑπ’ ἐκ μήλων αἱρεύμενοι, αἵ τ’ ἐν ὄρεσσι ποιμένοσ ἀφραδίῃσι διέτμαγεν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 27:2)
  • Πηλεί̈δησ δ’ ἑτέρωθεν ἐναντίον ὦρτο λέων ὣσ σίντησ, ὅν τε καὶ ἄνδρεσ ἀποκτάμεναι μεμάασιν ἀγρόμενοι πᾶσ δῆμοσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 20 19:6)
  • ἐξ Ἀγριάνων γὰρ διὰ Μαίδων καὶ Σιντῶν εἰσ τὰ μεταξὺ Βισαλτῶν καὶ Ὀδομάντων ἐκπίπτει. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter fragments 82:10)

Synonyms

  1. destructive

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

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