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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

  • λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὴν Τριτωνίδα λίμνην σεισμῶν γενομένων ἀφανισθῆναι, ῥαγέντων αὐτῆσ τῶν πρὸσ τὸν ὠκεανὸν μερῶν κεκλιμένων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 55 3:3)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τὰσ ἀπὸ τῆσ μητρυιᾶσ Ῥέασ ἐπιβουλὰσ φύλακα τοῦ παιδὸσ καταστῆσαι τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, μικρὸν πρὸ τούτων τῶν χρόνων γηγενῆ φανεῖσαν ἐπὶ τοῦ Τρίτωνοσ ποταμοῦ, δι’ ὃν Τριτωνίδα προσηγορεῦσθαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 70 2:1)
  • ἐκδιδοῖ δὲ οὗτοσ ἐσ λίμνην μεγάλην Τριτωνίδα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 178 1:2)
  • πειθομένου δὲ τοῦ Ιἤσονοσ, οὕτω δὴ τόν τε διέκπλοον τῶν βραχέων δεικνύναι τὸν Τρίτωνά σφι καὶ τὸν τρίποδα θεῖναι ἐν τῷ ἑωυτοῦ ἱρῷ, ἐπιθεσπίσαντά τε τῷ τρίποδι καὶ τοῖσι σὺν Ιἤσονι σημήναντα τὸν πάντα λόγον, ὡσ ἐπεὰν τὸν τρίποδα κομίσηται τῶν ἐκγόνων τισ τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἀργοῖ συμπλεόντων, τότε ἑκατὸν πόλιασ οἰκῆσαι περὶ τὴν Τριτωνίδα λίμνην Ἑλληνίδασ πᾶσαν εἶναι ἀνάγκην. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 179 4:1)
  • οὗτοι δὲ καὶ οἱ Μάχλυεσ πέριξ τὴν Τριτωνίδα λίμνην οἰκέουσι, τὸ μέσον δέ σφι οὐρίζει ὁ Τρίτων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 180 2:2)

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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