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Λεσβίς?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: Lesbis

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

  • ἔλθετε πρὸς τέμενος ταυρώπιδος ἀγλαὸν Ἥρης, Λεσβίδες, ἁβρὰ ποδῶν βήμαθ ἑλισσόμεναι, ἔνθα καλὸν στήσασθε θεῇ χορὸν ὔμμι δ ἀπάρξει Σαπφὼ χρυσείην χερσὶν ἔχουσα λύρην, ὄλβιαι ὀρχηθμοῦ πολυγηθέος: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1891)
  • 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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