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Οὐρανία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Οὐρανία

Structure: Οὐρανι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. Urania, the heavenly one

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

  • ἥκιστ’ ἀλλ’ οὐράνιαι Νεφέλαι μεγάλαι θεαὶ ἀνδράσιν ἀργοῖσ· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests3)
  • καὶ Σιμωνίδησ δὲ τὰσ Πλειάδασ Πελειάδασ εἴρηκεν ἐν τούτοισ ι δίδωτι δ’ εὖχοσ Ἑρμᾶσ ἐναγώνιοσ, Μαίασ εὐπλοκάμοιο παῖσ, ἔτικτε δ’ Ἄτλασ ἑπτὰ ἰοπλοκάμων φιλᾶν θυγατρῶν τὰν γ’ ἔξοχον εἶδοσ, ταὶ καλέονται Πελειάδεσ οὐράνιαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 803)
  • Αἰτίαι οὐράνιαι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. z'. DHMOKRITOS 14:9)

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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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