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ἁγνείᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁγνείᾱ ἁγνείᾱς

Structure: ἁγνει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: a(gneu/w

Sense

  1. purity, chastity
  2. purification, cleansing

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

  • αἱ γὰρ ἁγνεῖαι καὶ παιδοποιίαν καὶ γέλωτα καὶ οἶνον καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἄλλωσ ἀξίων σπουδῆσ ἀφαιροῦσι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 5:2)
  • θύειν δ’ ὅταν ἐπὶ νοῦν ἰῄ τινί, πρὸσ τὰ δημόσια ἴτω θύσων, καὶ τοῖσ ἱερεῦσί τε καὶ ἱερείαισ ἐγχειριζέτω τὰ θύματα, οἷσ ἁγνεῖαι τούτων ἐπιμελεῖσ. (Plato, Laws, book 10 152:4)

Synonyms

  1. purity

  2. purification

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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