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Ἐρινύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 고유 그리스 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐρινύς

Structure: Ἐρινυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: E)ri/nu_s not E)rinnu/s

Sense

  1. the Erinys or Fury, Three, Tisiphone, Megaera, Alecto
  2. curses from one's mother, blood-guiltiness of, distraction, curses to men

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Ἐρινύς Ἐρινύε Ἐρινύες
Genitive Ἐρινύος Ἐρινύοιν Ἐρινύων
Dative Ἐρινύϊ Ἐρινύοιν Ἐρινύσιν*
Accusative Ἐρινύν Ἐρινύε Ἐρινύας
Vocative Ἐρινύς Ἐρινύε Ἐρινύες

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

  • οὐκέτ’ ἂν φθάνοισ ἂν αὔραν ἱστίοισ καραδοκῶν, ὡσ μίαν τριῶν Ἐρινὺν τῆσδέ μ’ ἐξάξων χθονόσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, trochees11)
  • Διρκαίων ἅ ποτ’ ἐκ τόπων νέουσ πεδαίρουσ’ ἄλυρον ἀμφὶ μοῦσαν ὀλομέναν τ’ Ἐρινὺν ἔφερεσ ἔφερεσ ἄχεα πατρίδι φόνια· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, strophe 12)
  • Ἴλιον Ἴλιον, ὤμοι μοι, Φρύγιον ἄστυ καὶ καλλίβωλον Ἴ‐ δασ ὄροσ ἱερόν, ὥσ σ’ ὀλόμενον στένω ἁρμάτειον ἁρμάτειον μέλοσ βαρβάρῳ βοᾷ δι’ ὀρνιθόγονον ὄμμα κυκνοπτέρου καλλοσύνασ, Λήδασ σκύμνου, δυσελένασ δυσελένασ, ξεστῶν περγάμων Ἀπολλωνίων ἐρινύν· (Euripides, episode, lyric6)
  • πέφρικα τὰν ὠλεσίοικον θεόν, οὐ θεοῖσ ὁμοίαν, παναλαθῆ κακόμαντιν πατρὸσ εὐκταίαν Ἐρινὺν τελέσαι τὰσ περιθύμουσ κατάρασ Οἰδιπόδα βλαψίφρονοσ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἔτεκεν ἔτεκε δὴ μεγάλαν ἁ νέορτοσ ἅδε νύμφα δόμοισι τοῖσδ’ ἐρινύν. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, lyric14)

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

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