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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
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative τῆνος τή͂νη τῆνον
Genitive τήνου τή͂νης τήνου
Dative τήνῳ τή͂νῃ τήνῳ
Accusative τῆνον τή͂νην τῆνον
Vocative τῆνε τή͂νη τῆνον
DualN/A/V τήνω τή͂νᾱ τήνω
G/D τήνοιν τή͂ναιν τήνοιν
PluralNominative τῆνοι τῆ͂ναι τῆνα
Genitive τήνων τῆνῶν τήνων
Dative τήνοις τή͂ναις τήνοις
Accusative τήνους τή͂νᾱς τῆνα
Vocative τῆνοι τῆ͂ναι τῆνα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective τῆνος τήνου τηνότερος τηνοτέρου τηνότατος τηνοτάτου
Adverb τήνως τηνότερον τηνότατα

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

  • ἐν Τήνῳ κρήνη ἐστὶν ἧσ τῷ ὕδατι οἶνοσ οὐ μίγνυται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 18 1:6)
  • "ὦ ξένοι, καλὸσ μὲν ἦν κἀγαθὸσ ὁ παῖσ μου, πολλοὺσ δ’ ἄνδρασ Λακεδαίμων ἔχει τήνω κάρρονασ. (Plutarch, Lacaenarum Apophthegmata, , section 12)
  • καἴ κά τισ ἀντίον τι λῇ τήνῳ λέγειν, τήνῳ κυδάζομαί τε κἀπ’ ὦν ἠχθόμαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 28 1:3)
  • καὶ λεβίαν λαβέ, Μόσχε, τὸν ἥπατον ἐν περικλύστῳ Δήλῳ καὶ Τήνῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 61 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the notorious

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

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