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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

  • οὐκ ἄν με μισῶν ἀνεχόρευ’ Ἐρινύσιν; (Euripides, episode, iambic 12:8)
  • τοιγὰρ ὑπὸ ζοφίαισιν Ἐρινύσιν ἀμμέσον ἧπται Κωκυτοῦ κλοιῷ λαιμὸν ἀπαγχόμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 377 1:2)
  • ταῖσ τῶν τραγῳδῶν Ἐρινύσιν ἐοίκεν ἡ δόξα· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 50:1)
  • εὖτ’ Ἀφροδίτη δῖα προσέστιχε μακρὸν Ὄλυμπον, κούρῃσ αἰτήσουσα τέλοσ θαλεροῖο γάμοιο ‐ ἐσ Δία τερπικέραυνον, ὁ γάρ τ’ εὖ οἶδεν ἅπαντα, μοῖράν τ’ ἀμμορίην τε καταθνητῶν ἀνθρώπων ‐ τόφρα δὲ τὰσ κούρασ ἁρ́πυιαι ἀνηρείψαντο καί ῥ’ ἔδοσαν στυγερῇσιν ἐρινύσιν ἀμφιπολεύειν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 10:5)
  • ταύτην τὴν Πολυξώ φασιν ἐπιθυμοῦσαν Ἑλένην τιμωρήσασθαι τελευτῆσ τῆσ Τληπολέμου τότε, ὡσ ἔλαβεν αὐτὴν ὑποχείριον, ἐπιπέμψαι οἱ λουμένῃ θεραπαίνασ Ἐρινύσιν <ἴσα> ἐσκευασμένασ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 16:2)

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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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