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ξένη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξένη

Structure: ξεν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of ce/nos

Sense

  1. a female guest: a foreign woman
  2. a foreign country

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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ ξένα ὀνόματα πολλὰ ἤδη ἀκούων οὔτε ὄντων τινῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν οὔτε συστῆναι ὅλωσ δυναμένων, πάνυ, ὦ Ζεῦ, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοισ γελῶ. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 13:2)
  • μελαίνει τε τὸ σαφὲσ καὶ ζόφῳ ποιεῖ παραπλήσιον, ἕλκει τε μακρὸν ἀποτείνουσα τὸν νοῦν, συστρέψαι δὲ δέον ἐν ὀλίγοισ ὀνόμασιν ἐκχεῖται εἰσ ἀπειροκάλουσ περιφράσεισ, πλοῦτον ὀνομάτων ἐπιδεικνυμένη, ὑπεριδοῦσα δὲ τῶν κυρίων ὀνομάτων κἀν τῇ κοινῇ χρήσει κειμένων τὰ πεποιημένα ζητεῖ καὶ ξένα καὶ ἀρχαιοπρεπῆ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 5:3)
  • ξένα ἔτι τοῖσ πολλοῖσ τὰ τῆσ φιλοσοφίασ ἦν τότε, καὶ ὀλίγοι ἦσαν οἱ φιλοσοφοῦντεσ, ὥστε εἰκότωσ εἰσ τὸν Ἄνυτον καὶ Μέλητον ἔρρεπεν τὰ δικαστήρια. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 6:1)
  • πλὴν ἀλλ’ ἀκούω γε αὐτῶν ἀεὶ κεκραγότων καὶ ἀρετήν τινα καὶ ἰδέασ καὶ φύσιν καὶ ἀσώματα διεξιόντων, ἄγνωστα ἐμοὶ καὶ ξένα ὀνόματα. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 11:8)
  • καὶ εἰκότωσ, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, τοιαῦτά σοι τὰ γιγνόμενα φαίνεται, ξένα γε ὄντα καὶ πάμπολυ τῶν Σκυθικῶν ἐθῶν ἀπᾴδοντα, καθάπερ καὶ ὑμῖν πολλὰ εἰκὸσ εἶναι μαθήματα καὶ ἐπιτηδεύματα τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἡμῖν ἀλλόκοτα εἶναι δόξαντα ἄν, εἴ τισ ἡμῶν ὥσπερ σὺ νῦν ἐπισταίη αὐτοῖσ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a female guest

  2. a foreign country

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

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