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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ξένη ξένᾱ ξέναι
Genitive ξένης ξέναιν ξενῶν
Dative ξένῃ ξέναιν ξέναις
Accusative ξένην ξένᾱ ξένᾱς
Vocative ξένη ξένᾱ ξέναι

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

  • Τιμόθεοσ δὲ ὁ πρότερον ἡττηθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἰουδαίων συναγαγὼν ξένασ δυνάμεισ παμπληθεῖσ καὶ τοὺσ τῆσ Ἀσίασ γενομένουσ ἵππουσ συναθροίσασ οὐκ ὀλίγουσ, παρῆν ὡσ δορυάλωτον ληψόμενοσ τὴν Ἰουδαίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 10:24)
  • ἐμοὶ σὺ συμπέπτωκασ ἐσ ταὐτὸν λόγου, ἑκουσίωσ τήνδ’ ἐκ δόμων ἐλθεῖν ἐμῶν ξένασ ἐσ εὐνάσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 4:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτι τὰσ κοινὰσ καὶ συνήθεισ ἐξοικίζοντεσ ἐννοίασ, μᾶλλον δ’ ὅλωσ ἀναιροῦντεσ καὶ διαφθείροντεσ, ἑτέρασ ἐπεισάγουσιν ἀλλοκότουσ καὶ ξένασ. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 452)
  • ἇσ ἔχρῃζε γᾶσ ἐπὶ ξένασ ἔθανε· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 18)
  • ὤμοι, γᾶσ ἐπὶ ξένασ θανεῖν ἔχρῃζεσ ἀλλ’ ἔρημοσ ἔθανεσ ὧδέ μοι. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 111)

Synonyms

  1. a female guest

  2. a foreign country

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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