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ὑπηνήτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπηνήτης ὑπηνήτου

Structure: ὑπηνητ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. one that is just getting a beard, with one's first beard, bearded

Declension

First 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

  • Ἑρμῆν ὑπηνήτην καὶ τὸν Ποσειδῶνα κυανοχαίτην καὶ γλαυκῶπιν τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 11:2)
  • "οὐ σὺ μέντοι Ὁμήρου ἐπαινέτησ εἶ, ὃσ ἔφη χαριεστάτην ἥβην εἶναι τοῦ ὑπηνήτου, ἣν νῦν Ἀλκιβιάδησ αὐτὸσ ἔχει; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 61 5:5)
  • οὐ σὺ μέντοι Ὁμήρου ἐπαινέτησ εἶ, ὃσ ἔφη χαριεστάτην ἥβην εἶναι τοῦ <πρῶτον> ὑπηνήτου, ἣν νῦν Ἀλκιβιάδησ ἔχει; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 2:5)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ ἄρ’ ἔμελλον ἰὼν ἱερὰσ ἀνὰ βήσσασ Κίρκησ ἵξεσθαι πολυφαρμάκου ἐσ μέγα δῶμα, ἔνθα μοι Ἑρμείασ χρυσόρραπισ ἀντεβόλησεν ἐρχομένῳ πρὸσ δῶμα, νεηνίῃ ἀνδρὶ ἐοικώσ, πρῶτον ὑπηνήτῃ, τοῦ περ χαριεστάτη ἥβη· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 30:2)
  • αἶψα δ’ ἄρα Τροίην τε καὶ Ἑλλήσποντον ἵκανε, βῆ δ’ ἰέναι κούρῳ αἰσυμνητῆρι ἐοικὼσ πρῶτον ὑπηνήτῃ, τοῦ περ χαριεστάτη ἥβη. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 32:5)

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

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