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τῆνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τῆνος τῆνη τῆνον

Structure: την (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: doric for kei=nos, e)kei=nos

Sense

  1. he, she, it
  2. the notorious

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

  • ὅτε δ’ ἤδη βρωτύοσ ἠδὲ ποτᾶτοσ ἐσ κόρον ᾖμεν ἑταῖροι, τῆνα μὲν ἐξαπάειρον δμῶεσ, ἔπειτα δὲ παῖδεσ νίπτρ’ ἔδοσαν κατὰ χειρῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 28 5:2)
  • αἰὲν Ἔρωτοσ ἀκράτω ἐπεχεῖτο καὶ ἐσ τέλοσ ᾤχετο φεύγων, καὶ φάτο οἱ στεφάνοισι τὰ δώματα τῆνα πυκάσδειν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 104)
  • ἀλλ’ οὔ σφιν τῶν ἦδοσ, ἐπεὶ γλυκὺν ἐξεκένωσαν θυμὸν ἐσ εὐρεῖαν σχεδίαν στυγνοῦ Ἀχέροντοσ, ἄμναστοι δὲ τὰ πολλὰ καὶ ὄλβια τῆνα λιπόντεσ δειλοῖσ ἐν νεκύεσσι μακροὺσ αἰῶνασ ἔκειντο, εἰ μὴ κεῖνοσ ἀοιδὸσ ὁ Κήιοσ αἰόλα φωνέων βάρβιτον ἐσ πολύχορδον ἐν ἀνδράσι θῆκ’ ὀνομαστοὺσ ὁπλοτέροισ, τιμᾶσ δὲ καὶ ὠκέεσ ἔλλαχον ἵπποι, οἵ σφισιν ἐξ ἱερῶν στεφανηφόροι ἦλθον ἀγώνων. (Theocritus, Idylls, 22)
  • τὰ δὲ μυρία τῆνα, ὅσσα μέγαν Πριάμοιο δόμον κτεάτισσαν ἑλόντεσ, ἀέρι πᾳ κέκρυπται, ὅθεν πάλιν οὐκέτι νόστοσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 62)
  • Ἁδύ τι τὸ ψιθύρισμα καὶ ἁ πίτυσ αἰπόλε τήνα, ἃ ποτὶ ταῖσ παγαῖσι μελίσδεται, ἁδὺ δὲ καὶ τὺ συρίσδεσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 1)
  • οὐ τήνα γ’, οὐ Νύμφασ, ἐπεὶ ποτὶ Πῖσαν ἀφέρπων δῶρον ἐμοί νιν ἔλειπεν· (Theocritus, Idylls, 27)
  • ὠκυτέρα μαλακᾶσ ἀπὸ δίφρακοσ ἔδραμε τήνα ἰθὺ δι’ ἀμφιθύρω καὶ δικλίδοσ, ᾇ πόδεσ ἆγον. (Theocritus, Idylls, 43)

Synonyms

  1. the notorious

Related

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

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