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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

  • καὶ ὁ συχνοὺσ τῆσ πατρίδοσ ἀποξενώσασ ἐπὶ ξένησ ἀπώλετο πρὸσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ ἀναχθεὶσ ὡσ διὰ τὴν συγγένειαν τευξόμενοσ σκέπησ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 5:9)
  • Ὁ μὲν οὖν ἀνδροφόνοσ καὶ βλάσφημοσ τὰ χείριστα παθών, ὡσ ἑτέρουσ διέθηκεν, ἐπὶ ξένησ ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσιν οἰκτίστῳ μόρῳ κατέστρεψε τὸν βίον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:28)
  • ἵνα ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἐπιθυμοῦντεσ τροφὴν διὰ τὴν εἰδέ χθειαν τῶν ἐπαπεσταλμένων καὶ τὴν ἀναγκαίαν ὄρεξιν ἀποστρέφωνται, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἐπ̓ ὀλίγον ἐνδεεῖσ γενόμενοι καὶ ξένησ μετάσχωσι γεύσεωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:3)
  • ἄνθρακασ δ’ ἐγὼ ὑμῖν παρέξω τῆσδε τῆσ ξένησ χάριν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode21)
  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἀφειδήσαντεσ, ὡσ ἐσείδομεν δόλια τεχνήματ’, εἰχόμεσθα τῆσ ξένησ πρυμνησίων τε, καὶ δι’ εὐθυντηρίασ οἰάκασ ἐξῃροῦμεν εὐπρύμνου νεώσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:4)

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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