Ancient Greek

Noun

αἴθων • ‎(aíthōn) m, f ‎(genitive αἴθωνος); third declension

1. an instance of burning, blazing, lightning
   • Pindar, Olympian Ode 10.98
   • Pindar, Pythian Ode 1.44
2. a thing which blazes and flashes like burnished metal
   • Homer, Iliad 4.485
   • Homer, Odyssey 1.184
   • Homer, Iliad 9.123
   • 24, 233
3. of various animals: horse, lion, bull, eagle, fox
   • Pindar, Olympian Ode 11.20
   • Plato, The Republic 559.D
   1. men who are fiery
      • Sophocles, Ajax 222
      • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 448

Inflection

References

• αἴθων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• αἴθων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• αἴθων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «αἴθων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «αἴθων» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «αἴθων» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• αἴθων in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ardent idem, page 38.
  • boisterous idem, page 88.
  • dashing idem, page 196.
  • eager idem, page 258.
  • fiery idem, page 318.
  • flashing idem, page 326.
  • furious idem, page 350.
  • glancing idem, page 361.
  • gleaming idem, page 361.
  • hot idem, page 407.
  • impetuous idem, page 421.
  • sparkling idem, page 798.