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Τρωάς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Τρωάς Τρωάδος

Structure: Τρωαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Trw/ios의 여성형

Sense

  1. a female inhabitant of Troy or of the Troas/Troad; a female Trojan

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

  • Καλλίασ δὲ ὁ τὰσ Ἀγαθοκλέουσ πράξεισ ἀναγράψασ Ῥώμην τινὰ Τρωάδα τῶν ἀφικνουμένων ἅμα τοῖσ ἄλλοισ Τρωσὶν εἰσ Ἰταλίαν γήμασθαι Λατίνῳ τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀβοριγίνων καὶ γεννῆσαι τρεῖσ παῖδασ, Ῥῶμον καὶ Ῥωμύλον καὶ Τηλέγονον . (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 72 7:1)
  • εἴθ’ εὐχαῖσιν δεσποσύνοισ Λήδασ Ἑλένα φίλα παῖσ ἐλθοῦσα τύχοι τὰν Τρῳάδα λι‐ ποῦσα πόλιν, ἵν’ ἀμφὶ χαί‐ τᾳ δρόσον αἱματηρὰν ἑλιχθεῖσα λαιμοτόμῳ δεσποίνασ χειρὶ θάνοι ποινὰσ δοῦσ’ ἀντιπάλουσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • εἰσ δὲ Τρῳάδα καταχθείσ ἐσκήνωσε μὲν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῆσ Ἀφροδίτησ, κατακοιμηθεὶσ δὲ νύκτωρ ἐδόκει τὴν θεὰν ὁρᾶν ἐφεστῶσαν αὐτῷ καὶ λέγουσαν· (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 12 1:3)
  • εἰ σὺ τὰν ἐμοὶ στυγερὰν Τρῳάδα γᾶν μ’ ἤλπισασ ἄξειν. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, epode1)
  • καὶ τοῦτον τὸν ἔρωτα οὕτωσ, εἴτε παιδικὸν φήσει τισ εἴτε ἀνόητον, οὐκ ἔξαρνόσ εἰμι τὸ καὶ συνοικίζειν ἐθέλειν τὴν πόλιν καὶ πλῆθοσ ἀνθρώπων εἰσ αὐτὴν ὅσον δύναμαι συναγαγεῖν, καὶ οὐ μόνον τῶν ἐπιχωρίων, ἀλλ̓, εἰ δυνατὸν ἦν, καὶ ἑτέρασ πόλεισ συνελθεῖν ἀναγκάσαντα, ὥσπερ Ἐπαμεινώνδασ ποτὲ τὴν Βοιωτίαν εἰσ τὰσ Θήβασ συνῴκισε καὶ Θησεὺσ τὴν Ἀττικὴν εἰσ τὰσ Ἀθήνασ, καὶ Μυτιληναῖοί ποτε λέγονται τῆσ Αἰολίδοσ κατασχόντεσ καὶ τῶν περὶ τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον καὶ Τρῳάδα τόπων τὴν Λέσβον ἅπασαν εἰσ μίαν τὴν αὑτῶν συναγαγεῖν πόλιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. a female inhabitant of Troy or of the Troas

    • Τρώς (an inhabitant of Troy or of the Troas/Troad; a Trojan)

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