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ὡραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὡραῖος ὡραῖη ὡραῖον

Structure: ὡραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. produced at the right season, seasonable, timely, hora), fruits gathered in due season, of the season, yearling
  2. the summer season, in the season
  3. happening or done in season, in due season, seasonable, fair
  4. seasonable, due, proper
  5. seasonable or ripe, ripe for death
  6. in the bloom of youth, blooming, beautiful

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ὡραῖος ὡραίᾱ ὡραῖον
Genitive ὡραίου ὡραίᾱς ὡραίου
Dative ὡραίῳ ὡραίᾱͅ ὡραίῳ
Accusative ὡραῖον ὡραίᾱν ὡραῖον
Vocative ὡραῖε ὡραίᾱ ὡραῖον
DualN/A/V ὡραίω ὡραίᾱ ὡραίω
G/D ὡραίοιν ὡραίαιν ὡραίοιν
PluralNominative ὡραῖοι ὡραῖαι ὡραῖα
Genitive ὡραίων ὡραιῶν ὡραίων
Dative ὡραίοις ὡραίαις ὡραίοις
Accusative ὡραίους ὡραίᾱς ὡραῖα
Vocative ὡραῖοι ὡραῖαι ὡραῖα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὡραῖος ὡραίου ὡραιότερος ὡραιοτέρου ὡραιότατος ὡραιοτάτου
Adverb ὡραίως ὡραιότερον ὡραιότατα

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

  • τύνη δ’, ὦ Πέρση, ἔργων μεμνημένοσ εἶναι ὡραίων πάντων, περὶ ναυτιλίησ δὲ μάλιστα. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 71:1)
  • σῶσον νεκρούσ μοι, τἀμά τ’ οἰκτίρασ κακὰ καὶ τῶν θανόντων τάσδε μητέρασ τέκνων, αἷσ γῆρασ ἥκει πολιὸν εἰσ ἀπαιδίαν, ἐλθεῖν δ’ ἔτλησαν δεῦρο καὶ ξένον πόδα θεῖναι μόλισ γεραιὰ κινοῦσαι μέλη, πρεσβεύματ’ οὐ Δήμητροσ ἐσ μυστήρια, ἀλλ’ ὡσ νεκροὺσ θάψωσιν, ἃσ αὐτὰσ ἐχρῆν κείνων ταφείσασ χερσὶν ὡραίων τυχεῖν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:4)
  • Οὐ μὰ Δία, ἀλλὰ νεώνητόν τινα τῶν μειρακίων τῶν ὡραίων Φρύγα. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7:3)
  • "ἡ γὰρ τῶν ὡραίων ἀνθῶν καὶ καρπῶν αἴτησισ εἰσ ἀντίδοσιν τῆσ τοῦ σώματοσ ὡρ́ασ προκαλεῖται τοὺσ λαβόντασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 795)
  • ἡ δὲ ἱλαρότησ καὶ τὸ εὔθυμον ἐν ἅπαντι καιρῷ καὶ παιγνιῶδεσ, ἀχθεινὸν δὲ καὶ τραχὺ μηδέποτε μήτε φωνῇ μήτε ὄψει, τῶν καλῶν καὶ ὡραίων ἐρασμιώτερον αὐτὸν ἄχρι γήρωσ παρεῖχεν. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 2 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. the summer season

  2. happening or done in season

  3. seasonable

  4. in the bloom of youth

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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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