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Ἑκάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑκάτη

Structure: Ἑκατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e(/katos

Sense

  1. Hecate, the far-darter
  2. 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

  • " κρεῖττον ἔλεγε, καθά φησιν Ἑκάτων ἐν ταῖσ Χρείαισ, εἰσ κόρακασ ἢ εἰσ κόλακασ ἐμπεσεῖν· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. ANTISQENHS 4:6)
  • φωνήσασ ποτέ, "ἰὼ ἄνθρωποι," [καὶ] συνελθόντων, καθίκετο τῇ βακτηρίᾳ, εἰπών, "ἀνθρώπουσ ἐκάλεσα, οὐ καθάρματα," ὥσ φησιν Ἑκάτων ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῶν Χρειῶν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 13:6)
  • Οὗτοσ τὰ ἑαυτοῦ συγγράμματα κατακαίων, ὥσ φησιν Ἑκάτων ἐν πρώτῳ Χρειῶν, ἐπέλεγε· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. s'. MHTROKLHS 2:1)
  • Ἑκάτων δέ φησι καὶ Ἀπολλώνιοσ ὁ Τύριοσ ἐν πρώτῳ περὶ Ζήνωνοσ, χρηστηριασαμένου αὐτοῦ τί πράττων ἄριστα βιώσεται, ἀποκρίνασθαι τὸν θεόν, εἰ συγχρωτίζοιτο τοῖσ νεκροῖσ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 2:4)
  • " φησὶ δὲ καὶ Ἑκάτων ἐν τῷ δευτέρῳ τῶν Χρειῶν ἀνίεσθαι αὐτὸν ἐν ταῖσ τοιαύταισ κοινωνίαισ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 26:4)

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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