Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἡ δὲ γεννᾷ θυγατέρασ μὲν Κλεοπάτραν καὶ Χιόνην, υἱοὺσ δὲ Ζήτην καὶ Κάλαϊν πτερωτούσ, οἳ πλέοντεσ σὺν Ιἄσονι καὶ τὰσ ἁρπυίασ διώκοντεσ ἀπέθανον, ὡσ δὲ Ἀκουσίλαοσ λέγει, περὶ Τῆνον ὑφ’ Ἡρακλέουσ ἀπώλοντο. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 15 2:2)
  • αἱρεῖ δὲ καὶ Λέσβον καὶ Φώκαιαν, εἶτα Κολοφῶνα καὶ Σμύρναν καὶ Κλαζομενὰσ καὶ Κύμην, μεθ’ ἃσ Αἰγιαλὸν καὶ Τῆνον, τὰσ ἑκατὸν καλουμένασ πόλεισ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 3 50:1)
  • οἱ δὲ ἀνάγονται καὶ περὶ Τῆνον χειμάζονται. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 6 10:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁκὰ μὲν τῆνον ποτιδέρκεται ἄνδρα γελᾶσα, ἄλλοκα δ’ αὖ ποτὶ τὸν ῥιπτεῖ νόον. (Theocritus, Idylls, 22)
  • τῆνον μὰν θῶεσ, τῆνον λύκοι ὠρύσαντο, τῆνον χὡκ δρυμοῖο λέων ἔκλαυσε θανόντα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 46)

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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