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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

  • λαμβάνει μετὰ ταῦτα παρὰ Δευκαλίωνοσ Φαίδραν τὴν Μίνωοσ θυγατέρα, ἧσ ἐπιτελουμένων τῶν γάμων Ἀμαζὼν ἡ προγαμηθεῖσα Θησεῖ τοὺσ συγκατακειμένουσ σὺν ταῖσ μεθ’ ἑαυτῆσ Ἀμαζόσιν ἐπιστᾶσα σὺν ὅπλοισ κτείνειν ἔμελλεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 1 29:1)
  • καί τισ μουνωθεισέων τινὶ αὐτέων ἐνεχρίμπτετο, καὶ ἡ Ἀμαζὼν οὐκ ἀπωθέετο ἀλλὰ περιεῖδε χρήσασθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 113 1:4)
  • Σμύρνα δ’ ἦν Ἀμαζὼν ἡ κατασχοῦσα τὴν Ἔφεσον, ἀφ’ ἧσ τοὔνομα καὶ τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ καὶ τῇ πόλει, ὡσ καὶ ἀπὸ Σισύρβησ Σισυρβῖται τινὲσ τῶν Ἐφεσίων ἐλέγοντο· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 5:4)

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