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}
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"5": "vital energy, life"
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]
},
{
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"canonical"
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},
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"form": "āeí",
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"head2": "ᾰ̓εί"
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"pos": "adv",
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"english": "sometimes",
"roman": "eníote",
"word": "ἐνίοτε"
},
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"english": "never",
"roman": "oúpote",
"word": "οὔποτε"
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"english": "often",
"roman": "pollákis",
"word": "πολλάκις"
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"english": "seldom",
"roman": "spaníōs",
"word": "σπανίως"
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{
"english": "And the greatest testimony of this right he hath himself given, in that he said the Ionians were ever enemies to the Dorians. And it is true. For being Ionians, we have ever endeavoured to find out some means or other how best to free ourselves from subjection to the Peloponnesians, that are Dorians, more in number than we and dwelling near us. (Translation of Thomas Hobbes)",
"ref": "ca. 411 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.58",
"roman": "tò mèn oûn mégiston martúrion autòs eîpen, hóti hoi Íōnes aieí pote polémioi toîs Dōrieûsin eisín. ékhei dè kaì hoútōs: hēmeîs gàr Íōnes óntes Peloponnēsíois Dōrieûsi kaì pléosin oûsi kaì paroikoûsin eskepsámetha hótōi trópōi hḗkista autôn hupakousómetha,",
"text": "τὸ μὲν οὖν μέγιστον μαρτύριον αὐτὸς εἶπεν, ὅτι οἱ Ἴωνες αἰεί ποτε πολέμιοι τοῖς Δωριεῦσιν εἰσίν. ἔχει δὲ καὶ οὕτως: ἡμεῖς γὰρ Ἴωνες ὄντες Πελοποννησίοις Δωριεῦσι καὶ πλέοσιν οὖσι καὶ παροικοῦσιν ἐσκεψάμεθα ὅτῳ τρόπῳ ἥκιστα αὐτῶν ὑπακουσόμεθα,"
},
{
"english": "Now and always.",
"roman": "Nûn kaì aeí.",
"text": "Νῦν καὶ ἀεί.",
"type": "example"
}
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"always, ever"
],
"id": "en-ἀεί-grc-adv-sGMNmvoz",
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"always",
"always"
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[
"ever",
"ever"
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],
"qualifier": "at all times",
"raw_glosses": [
"(at all times): always, ever"
],
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{
"word": "πάντοτε"
}
],
"tags": [
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},
{
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"examples": [
{
"english": "But the Scythians who pillaged the temple, and their descendants after them , were forever afflicted by the goddess with the “female” sickness: and so the Scythians say that they are afflicted as a consequence of this and also that those who visit Scythian territory see among them the condition of those whom the Scythians call “Hermaphrodites”.",
"ref": "430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.105",
"roman": "toîsi dè tôn Skuthéōn sulḗsasi tò hiròn tò en Askálōni kaì toîsi toútōn aieì ekgónoisi enéskēpse ho theòs thḗlean noûson: hṓste háma légousí te hoi Skúthai dià toûto sphéas noséein, kaì horân par᾽ heōutoîsi toùs apikneoménous es tḕn Skuthikḕn khṓrēn hōs diakéatai toùs kaléousi Enáreas hoi Skúthai.",
"text": "τοῖσι δὲ τῶν Σκυθέων συλήσασι τὸ ἱρὸν τὸ ἐν Ἀσκάλωνι καὶ τοῖσι τούτων αἰεὶ ἐκγόνοισι ἐνέσκηψε ὁ θεὸς θήλεαν νοῦσον: ὥστε ἅμα λέγουσί τε οἱ Σκύθαι διὰ τοῦτο σφέας νοσέειν, καὶ ὁρᾶν παρ᾽ ἑωυτοῖσι τοὺς ἀπικνεομένους ἐς τὴν Σκυθικὴν χώρην ὡς διακέαται τοὺς καλέουσι Ἐνάρεας οἱ Σκύθαι."
},
{
"english": "May the gods always and forever graciously abide with you!",
"ref": "Sophocles, Oedipus the King, line 275",
"roman": "Eû xuneîen eisaeì theoí.",
"text": "Εὖ ξυνεῖεν εἰσαεὶ θεοί."
}
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"forever, everlastingly, infinitely"
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"(for all time): forever, everlastingly, infinitely"
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{
"word": "διὰπαντός"
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"(for (an) eternity): eternally",
"eternally"
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"eternally"
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"(for (an) eternity): eternally"
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"for (an) eternity"
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"tags": [
"Attic"
]
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"abidingly, at length, indefinitely, in perpetuity, lengthily, perpetually"
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"at length",
"at length"
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"indefinitely",
"indefinitely"
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[
"in perpetuity",
"in perpetuity"
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[
"lengthily",
"lengthily"
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[
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"perpetually"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(for an indefinitely long period of time, without specification regarding past present or future): abidingly, at length, indefinitely, in perpetuity, lengthily, perpetually"
],
"raw_tags": [
"for an indefinitely long period of time",
"without specification regarding past present or future"
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"tags": [
"Attic"
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"for the time being"
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"for the time being"
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"raw_glosses": [
"(for an indefinitely long period of time including the present time): for the time being"
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"for an indefinitely long period of time including the present time"
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"tags": [
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"Entry maintenance"
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"examples": [
{
"english": "Anthylla is a town of some reputation, and is especially assigned to the consort of the reigning king of Egypt at the time, to provide her shoes.",
"ref": "430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.98",
"roman": "toutéōn dè hē mèn Ánthulla eoûsa logímē pólis es hupodḗmata exaíretos dídotai toû aieì basileúontos Aigúptou têi gunaikí",
"text": "τουτέων δὲ ἡ μὲν Ἄνθυλλα ἐοῦσα λογίμη πόλις ἐς ὑποδήματα ἐξαίρετος δίδοται τοῦ αἰεὶ βασιλεύοντος Αἰγύπτου τῇ γυναικί"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(for an indefinitely long period of time including a specific point in time (generally in the past) which is not the present time): at that time, at the time; back then",
"at that time, at the time; back then"
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"id": "en-ἀεί-grc-adv-Tom531jN",
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"at that time",
"at that time"
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"at the time",
"at the time"
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"back then",
"back then"
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"(for an indefinitely long period of time including a specific point in time (generally in the past) which is not the present time): at that time, at the time; back then"
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"for an indefinitely long period of time including a specific point in time (generally in the past) which is not the present time"
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{
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{
"english": "But the Hellenic stock, it seems clear to me, has always had the same language since its beginning; yet being, when separated from the Pelasgians, few in number, they have grown from a small beginning to comprise a multitude of nations, chiefly because the Pelasgians and many other foreign peoples united themselves with them.",
"ref": "430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.58",
"roman": "tò dè Hellēnikòn glṓssēi mèn epeíte egéneto aieí kote têi autêi diakhrâtai, hōs emoì kataphaínetai eînai: aposkhisthèn méntoi apò toû Pelasgikoû eón asthenés, apó smikroû teo tḕn arkhḕn hormṓmenon aúxētai es plêthos tôn ethnéōn, Pelasgôn málista proskekhōrēkótōn autôi kaì állōn ethnéōn barbárōn sukhnôn.",
"text": "τὸ δὲ Ἑλληνικὸν γλώσσῃ μὲν ἐπείτε ἐγένετο αἰεί κοτε τῇ αὐτῇ διαχρᾶται, ὡς ἐμοὶ καταφαίνεται εἶναι: ἀποσχισθὲν μέντοι ἀπὸ τοῦ Πελασγικοῦ ἐόν ἀσθενές, ἀπό σμικροῦ τεο τὴν ἀρχὴν ὁρμώμενον αὔξηται ἐς πλῆθος τῶν ἐθνέων, Πελασγῶν μάλιστα προσκεχωρηκότων αὐτῷ καὶ ἄλλων ἐθνέων βαρβάρων συχνῶν."
},
{
"english": "\"Menelaus, leave Orestes to rule Argos; go and reign over the Spartan land, keeping it as the dowry of a wife who till this day never ceased causing you innumerable troubles.\"",
"ref": "Euripides, Orestes Line 1662",
"roman": "Árgous d᾽ Oréstēn, Menéleōs, éa krateîn, elthṑn d᾽ ánasse Spartiátidos khthonós, phernàs ékhōn dámartos, hḗ se muríois pónois didoûsa deûr᾽ aeì diḗnusen.",
"text": "Ἄργους δ᾽ Ὀρέστην, Μενέλεως, ἔα κρατεῖν, ἐλθὼν δ᾽ ἄνασσε Σπαρτιάτιδος χθονός, φερνὰς ἔχων δάμαρτος, ἥ σε μυρίοις πόνοις διδοῦσα δεῦρ᾽ ἀεὶ διήνυσεν."
}
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"from the get-go, from the start, heretofore, since the beginning, to date, up to now, until this day, \"jusqu'aujourd'hui\"; theretofore"
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"from the get-go"
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"from the start"
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"heretofore"
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[
"to date",
"to date"
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[
"up to now",
"up to now"
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[
"until",
"until"
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"jusqu'aujourd'hui",
"jusqu'aujourd'hui"
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[
"theretofore",
"theretofore"
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"qualifier": "at all times from a distant past through the present or some other time",
"raw_glosses": [
"(at all times from a distant past through the present or some other time): from the get-go, from the start, heretofore, since the beginning, to date, up to now, until this day, \"jusqu'aujourd'hui\"; theretofore"
],
"tags": [
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"endlessly, evermore, forevermore"
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"qualifier": "at all times from the present or some other time through a distant future",
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"ipa": "/a.ěː/"
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{
"ipa": "/aˈi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/a.ěː/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
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{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
},
{
"ipa": "/aː.ěː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aː.ěː/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
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"roman": "aieí",
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"word": "αἰεί"
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"word": "Ionic"
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"word": "poetic"
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"english": "Homeric",
"roman": "aién",
"word": "αἰέν"
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"roman": "aé",
"word": "ἀέ"
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{
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"roman": "aés",
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"roman": "aiés",
"word": "αἰές"
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"roman": "aiḗ",
"tags": [
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"word": "αἰή"
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{
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"roman": "aié",
"tags": [
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"word": "αἰέ"
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{
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"roman": "aîi",
"tags": [
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"word": "αἶι"
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{
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"roman": "ēi",
"tags": [
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"word": "ἠι"
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"english": "Delphic",
"roman": "aiweí",
"word": "αἰϝεί"
}
],
"word": "ἀεί"
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"Ancient Greek adverbs",
"Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
"Ancient Greek lemmas",
"Ancient Greek oxytone terms",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Hellenic",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Ancient Greek terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂ey- (life)",
"Ancient Greek terms inherited from Proto-Hellenic",
"Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Ancient Greek terms with redundant script codes",
"Attic Greek"
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"5": "vital energy, life"
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"2": "αἰών"
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{
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"tags": [
"canonical"
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"romanization"
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"romanization"
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"english": "sometimes",
"roman": "eníote",
"word": "ἐνίοτε"
},
{
"english": "never",
"roman": "oúpote",
"word": "οὔποτε"
},
{
"english": "often",
"roman": "pollákis",
"word": "πολλάκις"
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{
"english": "seldom",
"roman": "spaníōs",
"word": "σπανίως"
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{
"english": "And the greatest testimony of this right he hath himself given, in that he said the Ionians were ever enemies to the Dorians. And it is true. For being Ionians, we have ever endeavoured to find out some means or other how best to free ourselves from subjection to the Peloponnesians, that are Dorians, more in number than we and dwelling near us. (Translation of Thomas Hobbes)",
"ref": "ca. 411 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.58",
"roman": "tò mèn oûn mégiston martúrion autòs eîpen, hóti hoi Íōnes aieí pote polémioi toîs Dōrieûsin eisín. ékhei dè kaì hoútōs: hēmeîs gàr Íōnes óntes Peloponnēsíois Dōrieûsi kaì pléosin oûsi kaì paroikoûsin eskepsámetha hótōi trópōi hḗkista autôn hupakousómetha,",
"text": "τὸ μὲν οὖν μέγιστον μαρτύριον αὐτὸς εἶπεν, ὅτι οἱ Ἴωνες αἰεί ποτε πολέμιοι τοῖς Δωριεῦσιν εἰσίν. ἔχει δὲ καὶ οὕτως: ἡμεῖς γὰρ Ἴωνες ὄντες Πελοποννησίοις Δωριεῦσι καὶ πλέοσιν οὖσι καὶ παροικοῦσιν ἐσκεψάμεθα ὅτῳ τρόπῳ ἥκιστα αὐτῶν ὑπακουσόμεθα,"
},
{
"english": "Now and always.",
"roman": "Nûn kaì aeí.",
"text": "Νῦν καὶ ἀεί.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"always, ever"
],
"links": [
[
"always",
"always"
],
[
"ever",
"ever"
]
],
"qualifier": "at all times",
"raw_glosses": [
"(at all times): always, ever"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "πάντοτε"
}
],
"tags": [
"Attic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "But the Scythians who pillaged the temple, and their descendants after them , were forever afflicted by the goddess with the “female” sickness: and so the Scythians say that they are afflicted as a consequence of this and also that those who visit Scythian territory see among them the condition of those whom the Scythians call “Hermaphrodites”.",
"ref": "430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.105",
"roman": "toîsi dè tôn Skuthéōn sulḗsasi tò hiròn tò en Askálōni kaì toîsi toútōn aieì ekgónoisi enéskēpse ho theòs thḗlean noûson: hṓste háma légousí te hoi Skúthai dià toûto sphéas noséein, kaì horân par᾽ heōutoîsi toùs apikneoménous es tḕn Skuthikḕn khṓrēn hōs diakéatai toùs kaléousi Enáreas hoi Skúthai.",
"text": "τοῖσι δὲ τῶν Σκυθέων συλήσασι τὸ ἱρὸν τὸ ἐν Ἀσκάλωνι καὶ τοῖσι τούτων αἰεὶ ἐκγόνοισι ἐνέσκηψε ὁ θεὸς θήλεαν νοῦσον: ὥστε ἅμα λέγουσί τε οἱ Σκύθαι διὰ τοῦτο σφέας νοσέειν, καὶ ὁρᾶν παρ᾽ ἑωυτοῖσι τοὺς ἀπικνεομένους ἐς τὴν Σκυθικὴν χώρην ὡς διακέαται τοὺς καλέουσι Ἐνάρεας οἱ Σκύθαι."
},
{
"english": "May the gods always and forever graciously abide with you!",
"ref": "Sophocles, Oedipus the King, line 275",
"roman": "Eû xuneîen eisaeì theoí.",
"text": "Εὖ ξυνεῖεν εἰσαεὶ θεοί."
}
],
"glosses": [
"forever, everlastingly, infinitely"
],
"links": [
[
"forever",
"forever"
],
[
"everlastingly",
"everlastingly"
],
[
"infinitely",
"infinitely"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(for all time): forever, everlastingly, infinitely"
],
"raw_tags": [
"for all time"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "διὰ παντός"
},
{
"word": "διὰπαντός"
}
],
"tags": [
"Attic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"(for (an) eternity): eternally",
"eternally"
],
"links": [
[
"eternally",
"eternally"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(for (an) eternity): eternally"
],
"raw_tags": [
"for (an) eternity"
],
"tags": [
"Attic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"abidingly, at length, indefinitely, in perpetuity, lengthily, perpetually"
],
"links": [
[
"abidingly",
"abidingly"
],
[
"at length",
"at length"
],
[
"indefinitely",
"indefinitely"
],
[
"in perpetuity",
"in perpetuity"
],
[
"lengthily",
"lengthily"
],
[
"perpetually",
"perpetually"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(for an indefinitely long period of time, without specification regarding past present or future): abidingly, at length, indefinitely, in perpetuity, lengthily, perpetually"
],
"raw_tags": [
"for an indefinitely long period of time",
"without specification regarding past present or future"
],
"tags": [
"Attic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"for the time being"
],
"links": [
[
"for the time being",
"for the time being"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(for an indefinitely long period of time including the present time): for the time being"
],
"raw_tags": [
"for an indefinitely long period of time including the present time"
],
"tags": [
"Attic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "Anthylla is a town of some reputation, and is especially assigned to the consort of the reigning king of Egypt at the time, to provide her shoes.",
"ref": "430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.98",
"roman": "toutéōn dè hē mèn Ánthulla eoûsa logímē pólis es hupodḗmata exaíretos dídotai toû aieì basileúontos Aigúptou têi gunaikí",
"text": "τουτέων δὲ ἡ μὲν Ἄνθυλλα ἐοῦσα λογίμη πόλις ἐς ὑποδήματα ἐξαίρετος δίδοται τοῦ αἰεὶ βασιλεύοντος Αἰγύπτου τῇ γυναικί"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(for an indefinitely long period of time including a specific point in time (generally in the past) which is not the present time): at that time, at the time; back then",
"at that time, at the time; back then"
],
"links": [
[
"at that time",
"at that time"
],
[
"at the time",
"at the time"
],
[
"back then",
"back then"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(for an indefinitely long period of time including a specific point in time (generally in the past) which is not the present time): at that time, at the time; back then"
],
"raw_tags": [
"for an indefinitely long period of time including a specific point in time (generally in the past) which is not the present time"
],
"tags": [
"Attic"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "But the Hellenic stock, it seems clear to me, has always had the same language since its beginning; yet being, when separated from the Pelasgians, few in number, they have grown from a small beginning to comprise a multitude of nations, chiefly because the Pelasgians and many other foreign peoples united themselves with them.",
"ref": "430 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.58",
"roman": "tò dè Hellēnikòn glṓssēi mèn epeíte egéneto aieí kote têi autêi diakhrâtai, hōs emoì kataphaínetai eînai: aposkhisthèn méntoi apò toû Pelasgikoû eón asthenés, apó smikroû teo tḕn arkhḕn hormṓmenon aúxētai es plêthos tôn ethnéōn, Pelasgôn málista proskekhōrēkótōn autôi kaì állōn ethnéōn barbárōn sukhnôn.",
"text": "τὸ δὲ Ἑλληνικὸν γλώσσῃ μὲν ἐπείτε ἐγένετο αἰεί κοτε τῇ αὐτῇ διαχρᾶται, ὡς ἐμοὶ καταφαίνεται εἶναι: ἀποσχισθὲν μέντοι ἀπὸ τοῦ Πελασγικοῦ ἐόν ἀσθενές, ἀπό σμικροῦ τεο τὴν ἀρχὴν ὁρμώμενον αὔξηται ἐς πλῆθος τῶν ἐθνέων, Πελασγῶν μάλιστα προσκεχωρηκότων αὐτῷ καὶ ἄλλων ἐθνέων βαρβάρων συχνῶν."
},
{
"english": "\"Menelaus, leave Orestes to rule Argos; go and reign over the Spartan land, keeping it as the dowry of a wife who till this day never ceased causing you innumerable troubles.\"",
"ref": "Euripides, Orestes Line 1662",
"roman": "Árgous d᾽ Oréstēn, Menéleōs, éa krateîn, elthṑn d᾽ ánasse Spartiátidos khthonós, phernàs ékhōn dámartos, hḗ se muríois pónois didoûsa deûr᾽ aeì diḗnusen.",
"text": "Ἄργους δ᾽ Ὀρέστην, Μενέλεως, ἔα κρατεῖν, ἐλθὼν δ᾽ ἄνασσε Σπαρτιάτιδος χθονός, φερνὰς ἔχων δάμαρτος, ἥ σε μυρίοις πόνοις διδοῦσα δεῦρ᾽ ἀεὶ διήνυσεν."
}
],
"glosses": [
"from the get-go, from the start, heretofore, since the beginning, to date, up to now, until this day, \"jusqu'aujourd'hui\"; theretofore"
],
"links": [
[
"from the get-go",
"from the get-go"
],
[
"from the start",
"from the start"
],
[
"heretofore",
"heretofore"
],
[
"to date",
"to date"
],
[
"up to now",
"up to now"
],
[
"until",
"until"
],
[
"jusqu'aujourd'hui",
"jusqu'aujourd'hui"
],
[
"theretofore",
"theretofore"
]
],
"qualifier": "at all times from a distant past through the present or some other time",
"raw_glosses": [
"(at all times from a distant past through the present or some other time): from the get-go, from the start, heretofore, since the beginning, to date, up to now, until this day, \"jusqu'aujourd'hui\"; theretofore"
],
"tags": [
"Attic"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"endlessly, evermore, forevermore"
],
"links": [
[
"endlessly",
"endlessly"
],
[
"evermore",
"evermore"
],
[
"forevermore",
"forevermore"
]
],
"qualifier": "at all times from the present or some other time through a distant future",
"raw_glosses": [
"(at all times from the present or some other time through a distant future): endlessly, evermore, forevermore"
],
"tags": [
"Attic"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/a.ěː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/a.ěː/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
},
{
"ipa": "/aː.ěː/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/"
},
{
"ipa": "/aː.ěː/",
"note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
},
{
"ipa": "/aˈi/",
"note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "aieí",
"tags": [
"Epic"
],
"word": "αἰεί"
},
{
"word": "Ionic"
},
{
"word": "poetic"
},
{
"english": "Homeric",
"roman": "aién",
"word": "αἰέν"
},
{
"roman": "aé",
"word": "ἀέ"
},
{
"roman": "aés",
"word": "ἀές"
},
{
"roman": "aiés",
"word": "αἰές"
},
{
"roman": "aiḗ",
"tags": [
"Doric"
],
"word": "αἰή"
},
{
"roman": "aié",
"tags": [
"unknown"
],
"word": "αἰέ"
},
{
"roman": "aîi",
"tags": [
"Aeolic"
],
"word": "αἶι"
},
{
"roman": "ēi",
"tags": [
"Boeotian"
],
"word": "ἠι"
},
{
"english": "Delphic",
"roman": "aiweí",
"word": "αἰϝεί"
}
],
"word": "ἀεί"
}
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