αἰνῶ (aino)

αἰνῶ is an Ancient Greek form of αἰνός, meaning “terrible, dread; (noun) tale”.

It can also be a form of αἰνέω, “praise, approve”. It is the 1st person singular present active indicative.

Found 44 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.1010: αἴνῳ ἀειρομένης, καὶ ἀνέδρακεν ὄμμασιν ἄντην·

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.5.176: … ς, [ὀγδοήκοντα] ἔτη βιώσαντα καὶ ἀκούσαντα Ζήνωνος ἔτη ἐννεακαίδεκα. Ἐπαίξαμεν δὴ καὶ ἡμεῖς πρὸς αὐτὸν οὕτως· Αἰνῶ Κλεάνθην, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον Ἀΐδην· ἰδὼν γὰρ αὐτὸν πρέσβυν οὐκ ἠνέσχετο τὸ μὴ οὐ τὸ λοιπὸν ἄνεσιν ἐν φθιτοῖς ἔχειν τ …

Euripides, Alcestis 1093: αἰνῶ μὲν αἰνῶ· μωρίαν δ’ ὀφλισκάνεις.

All forms of αἰνός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.