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Ἑκάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑκάτη

Structure: Ἑκατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e(/katos

Sense

Hecate, the far-darter
Hecate's dinner

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Ἑκάτη	Ἑκάτᾱ	Ἑκάται
Genitive	Ἑκάτης	Ἑκάταιν	Ἑκατῶν
Dative	Ἑκάτῃ	Ἑκάταιν	Ἑκάταις
Accusative	Ἑκάτην	Ἑκάτᾱ	Ἑκάτᾱς
Vocative	Ἑκάτη	Ἑκάτᾱ	Ἑκάται

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

ἐπεὶ σύ, μᾶτερ, ἐπὶ δάκρυσι καὶ γόοισι τὸν θανόντα πατέρα πατρίδα τε φίλαν καταστένουσ’ ἔχεισ, ἐγὼ δ’ ἐπὶ γάμοισ ἐμοῖσ ἀναφλέγω πυρὸσ φῶσ ἐσ αὐγάν, ἐσ αἴγλαν, διδοῦσ’, ὦ Ὑμέναιε, σοί, διδοῦσ’, ὦ Ἑκάτα, φάοσ, παρθένων ἐπὶ λέκτροισ ᾇ νόμοσ ἔχει. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric10)
ἅμα δὲ Δίκτυννα παῖσ Ἄρτεμισ καλὰ τὰσ κυνίσκασ ἔχουσ’ ἐλθέτω διὰ δόμων πανταχῇ, σὺ δ’ ὦ Διὸσ διπύρουσ ἀνέχουσα λαμπάδασ ὀξυτάτασ χεροῖν Ἑκάτα παράφηνον ἐσ Γλύκησ, ὅπωσ ἂν εἰσελθοῦσα φωράσω. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric15)
ἰὼ πότνια παῖ Λατοῦσ Ἑκάτα, κατάχαλκον ἅπαν πεδίον ἀστράπτει. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric5)
ι ’ δεῖπνον ταῖσ θεαῖσ,1 κριβανίτασ καὶ ὁμώρουσ καὶ ἡμιάρτιον Ἑκάτᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 75 1:1)
τὶν γὰρ ποταείσομαι ἅσυχα, δαῖμον, τᾷ χθονίᾳ θ’ Ἑκάτα, τὰν καὶ σκύλακεσ τρομέοντι ἐρχομέναν νεκύων ἀνά τ’ ἠρία καὶ μέλαν αἷμα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 10)

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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