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Λεσβίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λεσβίς Λεσβίδος

Structure: Λεσβιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Lesbian woman

Declension

Third 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

  • δώσω δ’ ἑπτὰ γυναῖκασ ἀμύμονα ἔργα ἰδυίασ Λεσβίδασ, ἃσ ὅτε Λέσβον ἐϋκτιμένην ἕλεν αὐτὸσ ἐξελόμην, αἳ κάλλει ἐνίκων φῦλα γυναικῶν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 11:8)
  • δώσει δ’ ἑπτὰ γυναῖκασ ἀμύμονα ἔργα ἰδυίασ Λεσβίδασ, ἃσ ὅτε Λέσβον ἐϋκτιμένην ἕλεσ αὐτὸσ ἐξέλεθ’, αἳ τότε κάλλει ἐνίκων φῦλα γυναικῶν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 19:15)

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

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