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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

  • 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 ξένη̣ (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

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

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