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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

  • ἐκτὸσ εἰ μὴ σὺ τοῦτο εἶναι τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ὑπείληφασ τὸ ὑπὸ Φειδίου πεπλασμένον ἢ τοῦτο τὴν οὐρανίαν Ἀφροδίτην ὃ ἐποίησεν Πραξιτέλησ ἐν Κνίδῳ οὐ πάνυ πολλῶν ἐτῶν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 23:6)
  • ὥστε μὰ τὴν οὐρανίαν οὐκ ἄν εἴποιμι. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:13)
  • καὶ σὺ δὴ μυθοποιοῦ τινοσ ἀκούσασ ὡσ ἔστι τισ γυνὴ ὑπερφυὴσ τὸ κάλλοσ, ὑπὲρ τὰσ Χάριτασ αὐτὰσ ἢ τὴν Οὐρανίαν εἶναι, μὴ πρότερον ἐξετάσασ εἰ ἀληθῆ λέγει καὶ εἰ ἔστι που τῆσ γῆσ ἡ ἄνθρωποσ αὕτη, ἤρασ εὐθύσ, ὥσπερ φασὶ τὴν Μήδειαν ἐξ ὀνείρατοσ ἐρασθῆναι τοῦ Ιἄσονοσ. (Lucian, 150:1)
  • πολύξεναι νεάνιδεσ ἀμφίπολοι πειθοῦσ ἐν ἀφνειῷ Κορίνθῳ, αἵ τε τὰσ χλωρᾶσ λιβάνου ξανθὰ δάκρη θυμιᾶτε, πολλάκι ματέρ’ Ἐρώτων οὐρανίαν πτάμεναι νόημα ποττὰν Ἀφροδίταν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 33 2:1)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐπικότωσ ἀεὶ θέμενοσ ἄγναμπτον νόον δάμναται Οὐρανίαν γένναν, οὐδὲ λήξει, πρὶν ἂν ἢ κορέσῃ κέαρ ἢ παλάμᾳ τινὶ τὰν δυσάλωτον ἕλῃ τισ ἀρχάν. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, strophe 23)

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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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