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Κυθέρεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κυθέρεια

Structure: Κυθερει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from Ku/qhra

Sense

  1. Cythereia

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

  • ἐπίδοι δ’ Ἄρτεμισ ἁγνὰ στόλον οἰκτιζομένα, μηδ’ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκασ γάμοσ ἔλθοι Κυθερείασ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • λοίσθιον οὐκ ἤνεικε τόσαν φλόγα τᾶσ Κυθερείασ, ἀλλ’ ἐλθὼν ἔκλαιε ποτὶ στυγνοῖσι μελάθροισ, καὶ κύσε τὰν φλιάν, οὕτω δ’ ἀνενείκατο φωνάν· (Theocritus, Idylls, 11)

Related

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

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