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Λέρνα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λέρνα

Structure: Λερν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. Lerna

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Λέρνα Λέρνᾱ Λέρναι
Genitive Λέρνης Λέρναιν Λερνῶν
Dative Λέρνῃ Λέρναιν Λέρναις
Accusative Λέρναν Λέρνᾱ Λέρνᾱς
Vocative Λέρνα Λέρνᾱ Λέρναι

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

  • Ἐπὶ τὴν Λέρναν, ὦ Πόσειδον, παραγίνεται καθ̓ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν ὑδρευσομένη παρθένοσ, πάγκαλόν τι χρῆμα· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 11)
  • Μόνη δὲ παραγίνεται μακρὰν οὕτω τὴν ὁδὸν ἐξ Ἄργουσ ἐσ Λέρναν; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 21)
  • καὶ σχεδόν που κατὰ μέσην τὴν ὁδόν ἐστιν ἰοῦσα ἐσ τὴν Λέρναν. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 29)
  • κἀπειδὴ πάρεσμεν ἐσ τὴν Λέρναν, ἐγὼ μὲν λοχήσω ἐνταῦθά που, σὺ δὲ ἀποσκόπει· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 2 1:5)
  • μολὼν ἐσ Ἄργοσ ἀνακάλει Λέρνησ ὕδωρ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, trochees35)
  • τοῦ θεάτρου δέ ἐστι τοῦδε <οὐ> πόρρω γυμνάσιον τὸ ἀρχαῖον καὶ πηγὴ καλουμένη Λέρνα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 9:5)
  • ἡ δὲ Λέρνα ἐστίν, ὡσ καὶ τὰ πρότερα ἔχει μοι τοῦ λόγου, πρὸσ θαλάσσῃ, καὶ τελετὴν Λερναίᾳ ἄγουσιν ἐνταῦθα Δήμητρι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 12:3)

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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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