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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ἀμαζών Ἀμαζόνε Ἀμαζόνες
Genitive Ἀμαζόνος Ἀμαζόνοιν Ἀμαζόνων
Dative Ἀμαζόνι Ἀμαζόνοιν Ἀμαζόσιν*
Accusative Ἀμαζόνα Ἀμαζόνε Ἀμαζόνας
Vocative Ἀμαζών Ἀμαζόνε Ἀμαζόνες

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

  • οὗτοσ ὁ Θερμώδων ἐστίν, ἵναπερ αἱ Ἀμαζόνεσ οἰκῆσαι λέγονται. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 15 4:6)
  • ἢ ὅτι φεύγουσαι Διόνυσον αἱ Ἀμαζόνεσ ἐκ τῆσ Ἐφεσίων χώρασ εἰσ Σάμον διέπλευσαν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 562)
  • ἦ ὅτι φεύγουσαι Διόνυσον αἱ Ἀμαζόνεσ ἐκ τῆσ Ἐφεσίων χώρασ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 562)
  • φαίνονται δὲ μηδὲ Θεσσαλίαν ἀπραγμόνωσ αἱ Ἀμαζόνεσ διελθοῦσαι· (Plutarch, chapter 27 6:4)
  • διὸ ἐστράτευσαν ἐπ’Ἀθήνασ Ἀμαζόνεσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 1 27:1)

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