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Εἱλωτεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Εἱλωτεία

Structure: Εἱλωτει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from Ei(/lws

Sense

  1. the condition of a Helot

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Εἱλωτεία Εἱλωτείᾱ Εἱλωτεῖαι
Genitive Εἱλωτείᾱς Εἱλωτείαιν Εἱλωτειῶν
Dative Εἱλωτείᾱͅ Εἱλωτείαιν Εἱλωτείαις
Accusative Εἱλωτείᾱν Εἱλωτείᾱ Εἱλωτείᾱς
Vocative Εἱλωτείᾱ Εἱλωτείᾱ Εἱλωτεῖαι

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

  • ἀλλὰ πολὺ μᾶλλον εἰκὸσ εἶναι χαλεποὺσ καὶ φρονημάτων πλήρεισ, ἢ τὰσ παρ’ ἐνίοισ εἱλωτείασ τε καὶ πενεστείασ καὶ δουλείασ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 2 85:2)

Synonyms

  1. the condition of a Helot

Similar forms

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

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