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Ἑλληνίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἑλληνίς Ἑλληνίδος

Structure: Ἑλληνιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. A Greek woman

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

  • Ἄλεξισ δ’ ἐν Ἑλληνίδι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 10 1:3)
  • λέγεται δὲ μήτε γράμματα μαθεῖν Ἑλληνικὰ μήτε γλώττῃ πρὸσ μηδὲν Ἑλληνίδι χρῆσθαι τῶν σπουδῆσ ἐχομένων, ὡσ γελοῖον γράμματα μανθάνειν ὧν οἱ διδάσκαλοι δουλεύοιεν ἑτέροισ μετὰ δὲ τὸν δεύτερον θρίαμβον ἐπὶ ναοῦ τινοσ καθιερώσει θέασ Ἐλληνικὰσ παρέχων, εἰσ τὸ θέατρον ἐλθὼν καὶ μόνον καθίσασ εὐθὺσ ἀπαλλαγῆναι. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 2 2:1)
  • τέτταρσι δὲ γλώτταισ ἐχρῶντο οἱ Κιβυρᾶται, τῇ Πισιδικῇ τῇ Σολύμων τῇ Ἑλληνίδι τῇ Λυδῶν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 29:9)
  • μέτριον γὰρ ἰδιώτησ ὢν ἦγεν αὑτὸν καὶ τοῖσ πᾶσιν ἀρκῶν ἦν, παιδείᾳ τε συνιὼν καὶ μάλιστα τῇ Ἑλληνίδι καὶ παντὸσ τοῦ εἰσ θόρυβον ἀνακειμένου παντοίωσ ἀπαλλάσσων αὑτόν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 242:1)

Synonyms

  1. A Greek woman

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