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Ἀμαζών

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀμαζών Ἀμαζόνος

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

(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

πρῶτον μὲν ὀρόφῳ πτέρυγα περιβάλλει πέπλων, ἀνάθημα Δίου παιδόσ, οὓσ Ἡρακλέησ Ἀμαζόνων σκυλεύματ’ ἤνεγκεν θεῷ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:4)
ἡρ́πασε γὰρ Ἀριάδνην καὶ Ἀντιόπην καὶ Ἀναξὼ τὴν Τροιζηνίαν, ἐπὶ πάσαισ δὲ τὴν Ἑλένην, παρηκμακὼσ οὐκ ἀκμάζουσαν, ἀλλὰ νηπίαν καὶ ἀώρον αὐτὸσ ὡρ́αν ἔχων ἤδη γάμων πεπαῦσθαι καὶ νομίμων ἔπειτα διὰ τὴν αἰτίαν οὐ γὰρ ἀξιώτεραί γε παιδοποιοὶ τῶν Ἀθήνησιν Ἐρεχθηίδων καὶ Κεκροπίδων αἱ Τροιζηνίων καὶ Λακώνων καὶ Ἀμαζόνων ἀνέγγυοι θυγατέρεσ ἦσαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 6 1:3)
πρόφασιν μὲν οὖν ταύτην ὁ τῶν Ἀμαζόνων πόλεμοσ ἔσχε· (Plutarch, chapter 27 1:1)
ἱστορεῖ δὲ Κλείδημοσ, ἐξακριβοῦν τὰ καθ’ ἕκαστα βουλόμενοσ, τὸ μὲν εὐώνυμον τῶν Ἀμαζόνων κέρασ ἐπιστρέφειν πρὸσ τὸ νῦν καλούμενον Ἀμαζόνειον, τῷ δὲ δεξιῷ πρὸσ τὴν Πνύκα κατὰ τὴν Χρύσαν ἥκειν. (Plutarch, chapter 27 3:2)
καὶ θαυμαστὸν οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπὶ πράγμασιν οὕτω παλαιοῖσ πλανᾶσθαι τὴν ἱστορίαν, ἐπεὶ καὶ τὰσ τετρωμένασ φασὶ τῶν Ἀμαζόνων ὑπ’ Ἀντιόπησ εἰσ Χαλκίδα λάθρα διαπεμφθείσασ τυγχάνειν ἐπιμελείασ, καὶ ταφῆναί τινασ ἐκεῖ περὶ τὸ νῦν Ἀμαζόνειον καλούμενον. (Plutarch, chapter 27 5:1)

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