αἴθων

Ancient Greek

From αἴθω (aíthō, “to kindle, blaze”)

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

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

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ αἴθων; τοῦ, τῆς αἴθωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ αἴθων ho, hē aíthōn	τὼ αἴθωνε tṑ aíthōne	οἱ, αἱ αἴθωνες hoi, hai aíthōnes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς αἴθωνος toû, tês aíthōnos	τοῖν αἰθώνοιν toîn aithṓnoin	τῶν αἰθώνων tôn aithṓnōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ αἴθωνῐ tôi, têi aíthōni	τοῖν αἰθώνοιν toîn aithṓnoin	τοῖς, ταῖς αἴθωσῐ / αἴθωσῐν toîs, taîs aíthōsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν αἴθωνᾰ tòn, tḕn aíthōna	τὼ αἴθωνε tṑ aíthōne	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς αἴθωνᾰς toùs, tā̀s aíthōnas
Vocative	αἴθων aíthōn	αἴθωνε aíthōne	αἴθωνες aíthōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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 (2006–2019)
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.

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