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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)
  • "οὐ μέλει μοι τί σὺ λέγεισ ἀλλὰ τί τῆνοσ σιγῇ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 10 1:1)
  • "ὦ ξένοι, καλὸσ μὲν ἦν κἀγαθὸσ ὁ παῖσ μου, πολλοὺσ δ’ ἄνδρασ Λακεδαίμων ἔχει τήνω κάρρονασ. (Plutarch, Lacaenarum Apophthegmata, , section 12)
  • "ὦ ξένοι, καλὸσ μὲν ἦν κἀγαθὸσ ὁ παῖσ μου, πολλοὺσ δ’ ἄνδρασ Λακεδαίμων ἔχει τήνου κάρρονασ. (Plutarch, Lacaenarum Apophthegmata, chapter, section 1 1:1)
  • 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)
  • αἴκα τῆνοσ ἕλῃ κεραὸν τράγον, αἶγα τὺ λαψῇ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 3)
  • αἴκα δ’ αἶγα λάβῃ τῆνοσ γέρασ, ἐσ τὲ καταρρεῖ ἁ χίμαροσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 4)
  • ἀλλὰ τὺ γὰρ δὴ Θύρσι τὰ Δάφνιδοσ ἄλγε’ ἀείδεσ καὶ τᾶσ βουκολικᾶσ ἐπὶ τὸ πλέον ἵκεο μοίσασ, δεῦρ’ ὑπὸ τὰν πτελέαν ἑσδώμεθα, τῶ τε Πριήπω καὶ τᾶν Κραναιᾶν κατεναντίον, ᾇπερ ὁ θῶκοσ τῆνοσ ὁ ποιμενικὸσ καὶ ταὶ δρύεσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 15)
  • Δάφνισ ἐγὼν ὅδε τῆνοσ ὁ τὰσ βόασ ὧδε νομεύων, Δάφνισ ὁ τὼσ ταύρωσ καὶ πόρτιασ ὧδε ποτίσδων. (Theocritus, Idylls, 87)

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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