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ὠκύαλος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: ōkyalos

Principal Part: ὠκύαλος ὠκύαλον

Structure: ὠκυαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ἅλς

Sense

  1. sea-swift, speeding o'er the sea

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

  • πομπίλον ὠκυάλων νηῶν αἰανὸν ὁδουρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 19 3:1)
  • ἰὼ ἰώ, νῦν αὖ, νῦν, ὦ Ζεῦ, πάρα λευκὸν εὐάμερον πελάσαι φάος θοᾶν ὠκυάλων νεῶν, ὅτ Αἰάς λαθίπονος πάλιν, θεῶν δ αὖ πάνθυτα θέσμι ἐξήνυς εὐνομίᾳ σέβων μεγίστᾳ. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ὦρτο μὲν Ἀκρόνεώς τε καὶ Ὠκύαλος καὶ Ἐλατρεύς, Ναυτεύς τε Πρυμνεύς τε καὶ Ἀγχίαλος καὶ Ἐρετμεύς, Ποντεύς τε Πρωρεύς τε, Θόων Ἀναβησίνεώς τε Ἀμφίαλός θ, υἱὸς Πολυνήου Τεκτονίδαο: (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 11:6)
  • ἀλλ ὅτε τόσσον ἀπῆμεν ὅσον τε γέγωνε βοήσας, ῥίμφα διώκοντες, τὰς δ οὐ λάθεν ὠκύαλος νηῦς ἐγγύθεν ὀρνυμένη, λιγυρὴν δ ἔντυνον ἀοιδήν: (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 18:11)
  • ἡμεῖς δ ἐς λιμένα κλυτὸν ἤλθομεν ὦκα κιόντες, ἔνθ ἄρα Φοινίκων ἀνδρῶν ἦν ὠκύαλος νηῦς. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 15 59:11)

Synonyms

  1. sea-swift

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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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