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βληχή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βληχή

Structure: βληχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: Formed from the sound.

Sense

  1. a bleating, the wailing of children

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βληχή βληχᾱ́ βληχαί
Genitive βληχῆς βληχαῖν βληχῶν
Dative βληχῇ βληχαῖν βληχαῖς
Accusative βληχήν βληχᾱ́ βληχᾱ́ς
Vocative βληχή βληχᾱ́ βληχαί

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

  • τοὺσ δ’ ἄμυδισ βληχή τε δι’ ἠέροσ ἵκετο μήλων, μυκηθμόσ τε βοῶν αὐτοσχεδὸν οὐάτ’ ἔβαλλεν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 15:41)
  • βληχὴ δ’ ἀσσοτάτω τερένησ μυκήματι μόσχου· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 430 1:2)
  • δὴ τότ’ ἐγὼν ἔτι πόντῳ ἐὼν ἐν νηὶ μελαίνῃ μυκηθμοῦ τ’ ἤκουσα βοῶν αὐλιζομενάων οἰῶν τε βληχήν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 12 27:3)
  • Καθάπερ οὔτε κλαγγῇ χὴν οὔτε βληχῇ καταπλήσσεται πρόβατον, οὕτω μηδὲ πλήθουσ ἀνοήτου σε δεδιττέσθω φωνή. (Epictetus, Works, gnomologium epicteteum e( stobaei libris 3-4) 64:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bleating

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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