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Κυβέλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κυβέλη

Structure: Κυβελ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Cybele

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ φρυγίλῳ Σαβαζίῳ καὶ στρούθῳ μεγάλῃ μητρὶ θεῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων ‐ δέσποινα Κυβέλη, στροῦθε, μῆτερ Κλεοκρίτου. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:9)
  • ἡ κροτάλοισ ὀρχηστρὶσ Ἀρίστιον, ἡ περὶ πεύκασ τῇ Κυβέλῃ πλοκάμουσ ῥῖψαι ἐπισταμένη, ἡ λωτῷ κερόεντι φορουμένη, ἡ τρὶσ ἐφεξῆσ εἰδυῖ’ ἀκρήτου χειλοποτεῖν κύλικασ, ἐνθάδ’ ὑπὸ πτελέαισ ἀναπαύεται, οὐκέτ’ ἔρωτι, οὐκέτ’ παννυχίδων τερπομένη καμάτοισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2231)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ ὄροσ ὑπερκείμενον τῆσ πόλεωσ τὸ Δίνδυμον, ἀφ’ οὗ ἡ Δινδυμηνή, καθάπερ ἀπὸ τῶν Κυβέλων ἡ Κυβέλη. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 5 3:6)

Synonyms

  1. Cybele

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

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