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Τριτωνίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τριτωνίς Τριτωνίδος

Structure: Τριτωνιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Tritonis

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

  • φασὶ γεννηθεῖσαν τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν παρὰ Τρίτωνι τρέφεσθαι, ᾧ θυγάτηρ ἦν Παλλάσ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 12 3:7)
  • Τρίτωνι καὶ τῷ Ποσειδέωνι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 188 1:5)
  • καὶ Διόσ τε ἱδρύσαντο Λεχεάτου βωμόν, ἅτε ἐνταῦθα τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν τεκόντοσ, καὶ κρήνην καλοῦσι Τριτωνίδα, τὸν ἐπὶ τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ Τρίτωνι οἰκειούμενοι λόγον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 10:2)
  • ὀνομάζουσι δὲ Τρίτωνα αὐτόν, ὅτι τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν τραφῆναι παρὰ ποταμῷ Τρίτωνι ἔχει λόγοσ, ὡσ δὴ τοῦτον τὸν Τρίτωνα ὄντα καὶ οὐχὶ τὸν Λιβύων, ὃσ ἐσ τὴν πρὸσ Λιβύῃ θάλασσαν ἐκδίδωσιν ἐκ τῆσ Τριτωνίδοσ λίμνησ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 11:4)

Synonyms

  1. Tritonis

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

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