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ξένη?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: xenē

Principal Part: ξένη

Structure: ξεν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of ξένος

Sense

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

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ξένη ξένα ξέναι
Genitive ξένης ξέναιν ξενῶν
Dative ξένῃ ξέναιν ξέναις
Accusative ξένην ξένα ξένας
Vocative ξένη ξένα 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 ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτῆς καὶ προσεκύνησεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ εἶπε πρὸς αὐτόν. τί ὅτι εὗρον χάριν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς σου τοῦ ἐπιγνῶναί με, καὶ ἐγώ εἰμι ξένη; (Septuagint, Liber Ruth 2:10)
  • ἔπιδε ἐπὶ Ἁβραὰμ σπέρμα, ἐπὶ ἡγιασμένου τέκνα Ἰακώβ, μερίδος ἡγιασμένης σου λαὸν ἐν ξένῃ γῇ ξένον ἀδίκως ἀπολλύμενον, πάτερ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:3)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ οὕτω διέκειτο ὁ Πύρρος καὶ ταῦτα ὑπὲρ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπέπειστο, οὐδεὶς ὅστις οὐ συνετίθετο καὶ συνέπασχεν αὐτῷ, ἄχρι δή τις ἐν Λαρίσῃ πρεσβῦτις ξένη αὐτῷ τἀληθὲς εἰποῦσα ἔπαυσεν αὐτὸν τῆς κορύζης. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 21:6)
  • χαῖρε, Σώπολι, καὶ τουτονὶ Λεξιφάνην παραλαβὼν ἑταῖρον, ὡς οἶσθα, ἡμῖν ὄντα, λήρῳ δὲ νῦν καὶ ξένῃ περὶ τὴν φωνὴν νόσῳ ξυνόντα καὶ κινδυνεύοντα ἤδη τελέως ἀπολωλέναι σῶσον ἑνὶ γέ τῳ τρόπῳ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 18:3)
  • οὓς δ Ἄρης ἕλοι, οὐ παῖδας εἶδον, οὐ δάμαρτος ἐν χεροῖν πέπλοις συνεστάλησαν, ἐν ξένῃ δὲ γῇ κεῖνται. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:20)

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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