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Κενταυρομαχία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κενταυρομαχία

Structure: Κενταυρομαχι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ma/xh

Sense

  1. a battle of Centaurs

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Κενταυρομαχία Κενταυρομαχίᾱ Κενταυρομαχίαι
Genitive Κενταυρομαχίᾱς Κενταυρομαχίαιν Κενταυρομαχιῶν
Dative Κενταυρομαχίᾱͅ Κενταυρομαχίαιν Κενταυρομαχίαις
Accusative Κενταυρομαχίᾱν Κενταυρομαχίᾱ Κενταυρομαχίᾱς
Vocative Κενταυρομαχίᾱ Κενταυρομαχίᾱ Κενταυρομαχίαι

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

  • καὶ μὴν εἰ μέγα τὸ τρωθῆναι μαχόμενον Σαβίνοισ καὶ ἀνελεῖν Ἄκρωνα καὶ πολλῶν μάχῃ κρατῆσαι πολεμίων, τούτοισ μὲν ἔστι τοῖσ ἔργοισ κενταυρομαχίαν καὶ τὰ πρὸσ Ἀμαζόνασ παραβαλεῖν· (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 1 3:1)
  • ἔπειτα ἡ μὲν τετάρτη χώρα κενταυρομαχίαν χρυσῆν εἶχεν, ἡ δὲ πέμπτη λέοντασ καὶ ταύρουσ ἐναλλὰξ χρυσοῦσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 114 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. a battle of Centaurs

Similar forms

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

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