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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

  • εὐηρέτμουσ ναῦσ ἀντίασ Ἑλληνίσιν, καὶ μιξόθηρασ φῶτασ, ἱππείασ τ’ ἄγρασ ἐλάφων, λεόντων τ’ ἀγρίων θηράματα. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:11)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ δὴ τὰ πολιτικὰ βούλει σοφὸσ γενέσθαι, οἰεί παρ’ ἄλλουσ τινὰσ ἀφικόμενοσ σοφὸσ ἔσεσθαι ἢ τοὺσ πολιτικοὺσ τούτουσ, τοὺσ αὐτούσ τε δεινοὺσ ὄντασ τὰ πολιτικὰ καὶ χρωμένουσ ἑκάστοτε τῇ τε αὑτῶν πόλει καὶ ἄλλαισ πολλαῖσ, καὶ Ἑλληνίσιν προσομιλοῦντασ πόλεσιν καὶ βαρβάροισ; (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 33:3)
  • ἕτερον δὲ παρ’ ὀλίγαισ ἔτι φυλαττόμενον πόλεσιν Ἑλληνίσιν ἐν ἱερουργίαισ τισὶν ἀρχαϊκαῖσ, ὁ τῶν παρεμβεβηκότων τοῖσ ἁρ́μασι δρόμοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 73 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. A Greek woman

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