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|etymtx=-ιδος<br />Grammatical information: PN<br />Meaning: god's name<br />Other forms: also <b class="b3">Ἄδων</b>, <b class="b3">-ος</b>.<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Supposed to be Semitic, Hebr. [[adon]] [[Lord]]. But there is no cult known in the Semitic world connected with this name, nor a myth parallel to that in Greece. Burkert, Gr. Rel. 176f. w. litt. against, e.g. Kretschmer Glotta 7, 29ff, and 10, 235f. Fur. 328 n. 21 points to <b class="b3">᾽Αδων</b> as an Armenian general and a Phrygian flute-player. | |etymtx=-ιδος<br />Grammatical information: PN<br />Meaning: god's name<br />Other forms: also <b class="b3">Ἄδων</b>, <b class="b3">-ος</b>.<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Supposed to be Semitic, Hebr. [[adon]] [[Lord]]. But there is no cult known in the Semitic world connected with this name, nor a myth parallel to that in Greece. Burkert, Gr. Rel. 176f. w. litt. against, e.g. Kretschmer Glotta 7, 29ff, and 10, 235f. Fur. 328 n. 21 points to <b class="b3">᾽Αδων</b> as an Armenian general and a Phrygian flute-player. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[Adonis]], [[favourite]] of [[Aphrodite]], Sapph.; ὥδωνις, crasis for ὁ Ἄδ., Theocr.:—[[generally]], an [[Adonis]], a [[darling]], Luc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> Ἀδώνιδος κῆποι, [[quick]]-growing herbs [[grown]] in pots for the [[Adonia]], Plat. | |||
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