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αὐλή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐλή αὐλῆς

Structure: αὐλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: prob. from a)/hmi (a)/vhmi) to blow, for the au)lh/ was open to the air

Sense

  1. open court, courtyard
  2. quadrangle
  3. hall, chamber
  4. dwelling, house

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

  • καὶ ὥσπερ τινὶ ἠδικηκότι βασιλέα περιπεφραγμέναι εἰσὶν αἱ αὐλαί, ὡσ ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἀπηγμένῳ, τοὺσ οἴκουσ αὐτῶν ὀχυροῦσιν οἱ ἱερεῖσ θυρώμασί τε καὶ κλείθροισ καὶ μοχλοῖσ, ὅπωσ ὑπὸ τῶν λῃστῶν μὴ συληθῶσι. (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:18)
  • εἰσ τὸν αὐτόν Καισαρίου φθιμένοιο κατήφησαν βασιλῆοσ αὐλαί, Καππαδόκαι δ’ ἤμυσαν ἐξαπίνησ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 961)
  • τοῦ γὰρ δυώδεκα μὲν εἰσὶ αὐλαὶ κατάστεγοι, ἀντίπυλοι ἀλλήλῃσι, ἓξ μὲν πρὸσ βορέω ἓξ δὲ πρὸσ νότον τετραμμέναι, συνεχέεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 148 5:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ τοῖσ ἐπὶ ποταμῷ Ληθαίῳ Μάγνησιν Αὐλαὶ καλούμενον χωρίον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 32 9:1)
  • ὡσ δέ τινεσ, τοσοῦτοι ἦσαν οἱ σύμπαντεσ νομοὶ ὅσαι αἱ ἐν τῷ λαβυρίνθῳ αὐλαί· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 6:15)

Synonyms

  1. hall

  2. dwelling

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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