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ἀδελφιδῆ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδελφιδῆ

Structure: ἀδελφιδ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a brother's or sister's daughter, a niece

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

  • ἔπειτ’ ἔγημα Μεγακλέουσ τοῦ Μεγακλέουσ ἀδελφιδῆν ἄγροικοσ ὢν ἐξ ἄστεωσ, σεμνὴν τρυφῶσαν ἐγκεκοισυρωμένην. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 2:19)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀρχὰσ ἔχει μεγάλασ ἀεὶ καὶ ἰσχυράσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ σκῶμμα καὶ παιδιὰ καὶ τὸ γελάσαι τινὰ καὶ τὸ διανεῦσαι καὶ πολλὰ τοιαῦτα πολλοὺσ εἰσ ὀργὴν καθίστησιν, ὥσπερ ἡ Ἑλένη τὴν ἀδελφιδῆν προσαγορεύσασα παρθένε μακρὸν δὴ μῆκοσ Ἠλέκτρα χρόνου παρώξυνεν εἰπεῖν ὀψέ γε φρονεῖσ εὖ, τότε λιποῦσ’ αἰσχρῶσ δόμουσ· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 3 6:1)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀρχὰσ ἔχει μεγάλασ ἀεὶ καὶ ἰσχυράσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ σκῶμμα καὶ παιδιὰ καὶ τὸ γελάσαι τινὰ καὶ τὸ διανεῦσαι καὶ πολλὰ τοιαῦτα πολλοὺσ εἰσ ὀργὴν καθίστησιν, ὥσπερ ἡ Ἑλένη τὴν ἀδελφιδῆν προσαγορεύσασα, παρθένε μακρὸν δὴ μῆκοσ Ἠλέκτρα χρόνου, παρώξυνεν εἰπεῖν, ὀψέ γε φρονεῖσ εὖ, τότε λιποῦσ’ αἰσχρῶσ δόμουσ· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 3 2:3)
  • "ἐπὶ πάσαισ δ’ ἔγημε Κλεοπάτραν ἐρασθεὶσ τὴν Ἱπποστράτου μὲν ἀδελφήν, Ἀττάλου δὲ ἀδελφιδῆν καὶ ταύτην ἐπεισάγων τῇ Ὀλυμπιάδι ἅπαντα τὸν βίον τὸν ἑαυτοῦ συνέχεεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 59)
  • τελευτήσαντοσ δὲ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Θεαρίδου Δίων ἔλαβε τὴν Ἀρετήν ἀδελφιδῆν οὖσαν. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 6 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a brother's or sister's daughter

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

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