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Ἀμαζών

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀμαζών Ἀμαζόνος

Structure: Ἀμαζων (Stem)

Etym.: Commonly derived from 부정 접두사 a, mazo/s, from the fable that they got rid of the right breast, that it might not interfere with the use of the bow.

Sense

  1. (chiefly in the plural) Amazons, a nation of female warriors from western Scythia.

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • αμαζονιυσ αυτεμ ϝοξατυσ εστ εχ αμορε ξονξυβιναε συαε μαρξιαε, θυαμ πιξταμ ιν αμαζονε διλιγεβατ, προπτερ θυαμ ετ ιπσε αμαζονιξο ηαβιτυ ιν αρεναμ ρομαναμ προξεδερε ϝολυιτ. (Unknown, Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Vol 1, commodus antoninus, chapter 11 9:1)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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