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Εἰλείθυια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Εἰλείθυια

Structure: Εἰλειθυι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: A quasiparticipial form, as if e)lhluqui=a, the readycomer

Sense

  1. Ilithyia, who comes to aid women

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Εἰλείθυια Εἰλειθυίᾱ Εἰλείθυιαι
Genitive Εἰλειθυίᾱς Εἰλειθυίαιν Εἰλειθυιῶν
Dative Εἰλειθυίᾱͅ Εἰλειθυίαιν Εἰλειθυίαις
Accusative Εἰλειθυίᾱν Εἰλειθυίᾱ Εἰλειθυίᾱς
Vocative Εἰλειθυίᾱ Εἰλειθυίᾱ Εἰλείθυιαι

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

  • ἣ δ’ Ἥβην καὶ Ἄρηα καὶ Εἰλείθυιαν ἔτικτε μιχθεῖσ’ ἐν φιλότητι θεῶν βασιλῆι καὶ ἀνδρῶν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 90:2)
  • "ὥσπερ εὐθὺσ ἡ περὶ τὴν γένεσιν ἡμῶν οὐκ εὐπρεπὴσ οὖσα δι’ αἵματοσ καὶ ὠδίνων, ὅμωσ ἔχει θεῖον ἐπίσκοπον Εἰλείθυιαν καὶ Λοχείαν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 15 1:4)
  • αἳ δ’ Ἶριν προὔπεμψαν ἐυκτιμένησ ἀπὸ νήσου, ἀξέμεν Εἰλείθυιαν, ὑποσχόμεναι μέγαν ὁρ́μον, χρυσείοισι λίνοισιν ἐερμένον, ἐννεάπηχυν· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , part 9:1)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπεί ῥ’ ἵκανε θεῶν ἕδοσ, αἰπὺν Ὄλυμπον, αὐτίκ’ ἄρ’ Εἰλείθυιαν ἀπὲκ μεγάροιο θύραζε ἐκπροκαλεσσαμένη ἔπεα πτερόεντα προσηύδα, πάντα μάλ’, ὡσ ἐπέτελλον Ὀλύμπια δώματ’ ἔχουσαι. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , part 9:4)
  • Ζεὺσ δὲ γαμεῖ μὲν Ἥραν, καὶ τεκνοῖ Ἥβην Εἰλείθυιαν Ἄρην, μίγνυται δὲ πολλαῖσ θνηταῖσ τε καὶ ἀθανάτοισ γυναιξίν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 3 1:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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