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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

a threshing-floor
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

δμωσὶ δ’ ἐποτρύνειν Δημήτεροσ ἱερὸν ἀκτὴν δινέμεν, εὖτ’ ἂν πρῶτα φανῇ σθένοσ Ωἀρίωνοσ, χώρῳ ἐν εὐαέι καὶ ἐυτροχάλῳ ἐν ἀλωῇ. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 66:1)
Μέσσῃ δ’ ἑβδομάτῃ Δημήτεροσ ἱερὸν ἀκτὴν εὖ μάλ’ ὀπιπεύοντα ἐυτροχάλῳ ἐν ἀλωῇ βαλλέμεν, ὑλοτόμον τε ταμεῖν θαλαμήια δοῦρα νήιά τε ξύλα πολλά, τά τ’ ἄρμενα νηυσὶ πέλονται. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 98:3)
εὑρ͂ε δὲ τόνγ’ ἀπάνευθε Διὸσ θαλερῇ ἐν ἀλωῇ, οὐκ οἰο͂ν, μετα καὶ Γανυμήδεα, τόν ῥά ποτε Ζεὺσ οὐρανῷ ἐγκατένασσεν ἐφέστιον ἀθανάτοισιν, κάλλεοσ ἱμερθείσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 3:10)
τὴν δ’ ἑτέρην ἐτέλεσσε φυτῶν εὔκαρποσ ἀλωή· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6803)
ἔνθα δὲ πατρὸσ ἐμοῦ τέμενοσ τεθαλυῖά τ’ ἀλωή, τόσσον ἀπὸ πτόλιοσ, ὅσσον τε γέγωνε βοήσασ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 6 26:4)
θορύβου δὲ πολλοῦ καὶ πλάνου τὸ στράτευμα πᾶν ἐπέχοντοσ ᾡ̓́οντο γὰρ ἐπιπεπτωκότων τῶν πολεμίων τροπὴν γεγονέναι καὶ διασπασμόν’ Ἀντώνιοσ ἕνα καλέσασ τῶν δορυφορούντων αὐτὸν ἀπελευθέρων, ὄνομα Ῥάμνον, ὡρ́κωσεν, ὅταν κελεύσῃ, τὸ ξίφοσ αὐτοῦ διεῖναι καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτεμεῖν, ὡσ μήτε ἁλῴη ζῶν ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων μήτε γνωσθείη τεθνηκώσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 48 3:1)
πλεῖον γὰρ ὑπερέχειν φαίνεται, ὅθεν καὶ ὁ ποιητήσ φησι πεῖσαι τὸν Μελέαγρον ἀναστῆναι ὅσσα κάκ’ ἀνθρώποισι πέλει τῶν ἄστυ ἁλώῃ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 7 31:3)

Synonyms

a threshing-floor
- ἅλως (a threshing-floor)
- Ἁλωάς (goddess of the threshing-floor)
- δῖνος (a round area, a threshing-floor)
- πάτος (floor)
- ἀλοητός (a threshing)
a garden
- φυταλία (a planted place, an orchard or vineyard)
- κῆπος (a garden, orchard, plantation)

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

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a garden

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ἀλωή

Sense

Declension

Examples

Synonyms

a threshing-floor

a garden

Similar forms

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