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ἀλωή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλωή

Structure: ἀλω (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)le/w: epic for a(/lws.

Sense

  1. a threshing-floor
  2. a garden, orchard, vineyard

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀλωή ἀλωᾱ́ ἀλωαί
Genitive ἀλωῆς ἀλωαῖν ἀλωῶν
Dative ἀλωῇ ἀλωαῖν ἀλωαῖς
Accusative ἀλωήν ἀλωᾱ́ ἀλωᾱ́ς
Vocative ἀλωή ἀλωᾱ́ ἀλωαί

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

  • πέρθοντο γὰρ ἠμὲν ἀλωαὶ ἠδ’ οἰαῖ τῆμοσ δῄῳ ὑπὸ δουρὶ Λύκοιο καὶ Μαριανδυνῶν ἀνδρῶν, ἀπεόντοσ ἄνακτοσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 2:43)
  • πᾶν γὰρ δὴ πεδίον τόδ’ ἐπίφρονοσ Αὐγείαο, πυροφόροι τε γύαι καὶ ἀλωαὶ δενδρήεσσαι, μέχρισ ἐπ’ ἐσχατιὰσ πολυπίδακοσ ἀκρωρείησ, ἃσ ἡμεῖσ ἔργοισιν ἐποιχόμεθα πρόπαν ἦμαρ, ἣ δίκη οἰκήων, οἷσιν βίοσ ἔπλετ’ ἐπ’ ἀγροῦ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 11)

Synonyms

  1. a threshing-floor

  2. a garden

Similar forms

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

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