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ὑετός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑετός ὑετοῦ

Structure: ὑετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(/w

Sense

  1. heavy rain

Declension

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

  • ἀριθμηταὶ δὲ αὐτῷ σταγόνεσ ὑετοῦ, καὶ ἐπιχυθήσονται ὑετῷ εἰσ νεφέλην. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 36:27)
  • τίσ δὲ ἡτοίμασεν ὑετῷ λάβρῳ ρύσιν, ὁδὸν δὲ κυδοιμῶν (Septuagint, Liber Iob 38:25)
  • χρήματα ἀδίκων ὡσ ποταμὸσ ξηρανθήσεται καὶ ὡσ βροντὴ μεγάλη ἐν ὑετῷ ἐξηχήσει. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 40:13)
  • καὶ κρινῶ αὐτὸν θανάτῳ καὶ αἵματι καὶ ὑετῷ κατακλύζοντι καὶ λίθοισ χαλάζησ, καὶ πῦρ καὶ θεῖον βρέξω ἐπ’ αὐτὸν καὶ ἐπὶ πάντασ τοὺσ μετ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπ’ ἔθνη πολλὰ μετ’ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 38:22)
  • "τήμερον παρὰ Σκύθαισ ὑέτω, παρὰ Λίβυσιν ἀστραπτέτω, παρ’ Ἕλλησι νιφέτω, σὺ δὲ ὁ Βορέασ πνεῦσον ἐν Λυδίᾳ, σὺ δὲ ὁ Νότοσ ἡσυχίαν ἄγε, ὁ δὲ Ζέφυροσ τὸν Ἀδρίαν διακυμαινέτω, καὶ τῆσ χαλάζησ ὅσον μέδιμνοι χίλιοι διασκεδασθήτωσαν ὑπὲρ Καππαδοκίασ," ἁπάντων δὲ ἤδη σχεδὸν αὐτῷ διῳκημένων ἀπῄειμεν ἐσ τὸ συμπόσιον δείπνου γὰρ ἤδη καιρὸσ ἦν καί με ὁ Ἑρμῆσ παραλαβὼν κατέκλινε παρὰ τὸν Πᾶνα καὶ τοὺσ Κορύβαντασ καὶ τὸν Ἄττιν καὶ τὸν Σαβάζιον, τοὺσ μετοίκουσ τούτουσ καὶ ἀμφιβόλουσ θεούσ. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 26:4)

Synonyms

  1. heavy rain

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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