ἀείζως

Contracted form of ἀείζωος (aeízōos) (“ever-living”), from ἀεί (aeí) (“always”) + ζῶος (zôos) (“living”).

ἀείζως • (aeízōs) m or f (neuter ἀείζων); second declension

1. everliving, everlasting, immortal

   (poetic, Tragic, contracted) contracted masculine/feminine nominative singular of ἀείζωος (aeízōos)

• ἀείζως (aeízōs) is the contracted poetic form of ἀείζωος (aeízōos), especially common in tragic and lyric diction.
• It denotes continuous or unceasing life (“ever-living”), and is distinct from:
  • ἀΐδιος (aḯdios) (“eternal” in the sense of timeless or ungenerated existence)
  • αἰώνιος (aiṓnios) (“lasting for an age; eternal by context”)
• In philosophical contrast (cf. *Corpus Hermeticum* 8.2), ἀείζωος (aeízōos) / ἀείζως (aeízōs) emphasizes **unbroken life**, not metaphysical atemporality.

• ἀείζωος (aeízōos)
• ἀείζωον (aeízōon)
• ἀΐδιος (aḯdios)
• αἰώνιος (aiṓnios)
• ἀθάνατος (athánatos)

• “ἀείζως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀείζως in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀείζως in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)