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Ἐχῖναι

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἐχῖναι Ἐχινῶν

Structure: Ἐχῑν (Stem) + αι (Ending)

Sense

  1. the islands in the Ionian sea

Declension

First declension
Plural
Nominative Ἐχῖναι
Genitive Ἐχῑνῶν
Dative Ἐχῑ́ναις
Accusative Ἐχῑ́νᾱς
Vocative Ἐχῖναι

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἢν ἰδού, πολλούσ που τοὺσ ἰχθῦσ ὁρῶ κατὰ ταὐτὸν ὁμόχροασ, ἀκανθώδεισ καὶ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν ἐκτετραχυσμένουσ, ἐχίνων δυσληπτοτέρουσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 50:10)
  • ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ ἡ Ἴκαροσ πρότερον Ἰχθυόεσσα διὰ τὸ ἐν αὐτῇ τῶν ἰχθύων πλῆθοσ, ὡσ καὶ Ἐχινάδεσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐχίνων καὶ Σηπιὰσ ἄκρα ἀπὸ τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν σηπιῶν καὶ Λαγοῦσσαι νῆσοι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αὐταῖσ λαγωῶν καὶ ἕτεραι Φυκοῦσσαι καὶ Λοπαδοῦσσαι ἀπὸ τῶν παραπλησίων, προσαγορεύεται δέ, φησὶν Ἐπαρχίδησ, ἡ ἄμπελοσ ἡ τὸν Ἰκάριον πράμνιον φέρουσα ὑπὸ τῶν ξένων μὲν ἱερά, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν Οἰνοαίων Διονυσιάσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 55 2:2)
  • "τὰ ὀστρακόδερμα ἐν τῷ ἐάρι φαίνεται ἔχοντα τὰ καλούμενα ᾠά, κἀν τῷ μετοπώρῳ δὲ πλὴν τῶν ἐχίνων τῶν ἐδωδίμων, οὗτοι δὲ μάλιστα μὲν ἐν ταύταισ ταῖσ ὡρ́αισ αἰεί τε ἰσχύουσι καὶ τὸ πλέον ἐν ταῖσ πανσελήνοισ καὶ ταῖσ ἀλεειναῖσ ἡμέραισ πλὴν τῶν ἐν τῷ Εὐρίπῳ τῶν Πυρραίων ἐκεῖνοι δ’ ἀμείνονεσ τοῦ χειμῶνοσ καί εἰσι μικροί, πλήρεισ δὲ ᾠῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 35 3:3)
  • Ἀριστοτέλησ δέ φησι τῶν ἐχίνων πλείω γένη εἶναι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 5:1)
  • καὶ Ἐπίχαρμοσ δὲ ἐν Ἥβασ γάμῳ περὶ τῶν ἐχίνων φησί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. the islands in the Ionian sea

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

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