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Τριτογένεια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τριτογένεια

Structure: Τριτογενει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: gi/gnomai

Sense

  1. Trito-born

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

  • πρώτην μὲν κούρην γλαυκώπιδα Τριτογένειαν ἶσον ἔχουσαν πατρὶ μένοσ καὶ ἐπίφρονα βουλήν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 83:5)
  • αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐκ κεφαλῆσ γλαυκώπιδα Τριτογένειαν δεινὴν ἐγρεκύδοιμον ἀγέστρατον Ἀτρυτώνην πότνιαν, ᾗ κέλαδοί τε ἅδον πόλεμοί τε μάχαι τε, Ἥρη δ’ Ἥφαιστον κλυτὸν οὐ φιλότητι μιγεῖσα γείνατο, καὶ ζαμένησε καὶ ἤρισε ᾧ παρακοίτῃ, ἐκ πάντων τέχνῃσι κεκασμένον Οὐρανιώνων. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 91:1)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ ἰσόπλευρον τρίγωνον ἐκάλουν Ἀθηνᾶν κορυφαγεννῆ καὶ τριτογένειαν , ὅτι τρισὶ καθέτοισ ἀπὸ τῶν τριῶν γωνιῶν ἀγομέναισ διαιρεῖται· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 75 11:4)
  • ὠνομάσθαι δὲ αὐτὴν Τριτογένειαν ἀπὸ τοῦ τρὶσ μεταβάλλειν αὐτῆσ τὴν φύσιν κατ’ ἐνιαυτόν, ἐάροσ καὶ θέρουσ καὶ χειμῶνοσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 12 8:1)
  • διὸ καὶ Τριτογένειαν ὀνομασθῆναι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 72 3:2)

Related

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

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