αἰνός : dread,
dreadful, dire; either with full force and seriousness of
meaning, or colloquially and hyperbolically; αἰνότατε Κρονίδη, ‘horrid,’ Il. 1.552 (cf. Il. 8.423), αἰνῶς ἔοικας
κείνῳ, ‘terribly’ like him, Od. 1.208.—Adv., αἰνότατον, αἰνά, αἰνῶς. τί νύ σ᾽ ἔτρεφον
αἰνὰ τεκοῦσα (since I bore thee ‘to
sorrow’), Il. 1.414, cf.
418, αἰνῶς κακὰ εἵματα
(‘shocking’ bad clothes), Od. 17.24.