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δμωή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δμωή

Structure: δμω (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: dama/zw

Sense

  1. a female slave taken in war, a female slave, serving-woman

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative δμωή δμωᾱ́ δμωαί
Genitive δμωῆς δμωαῖν δμωῶν
Dative δμωῇ δμωαῖν δμωαῖς
Accusative δμωήν δμωᾱ́ δμωᾱ́ς
Vocative δμωή δμωᾱ́ δμωαί

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

  • μήτηρ δ’ ἐμὴ Φρυγίοισιν ἐν σκυλεύμασιν θρόνῳ κάθηται, πρὸσ δ’ ἕδραισιν Ἀσίδεσ δμωαὶ στατίζουσ’, ἃσ ἔπερσ’ ἐμὸσ πατήρ, Ἰδαῖα φάρη χρυσέαισ ἐζευγμέναι πόρπαισιν. (Euripides, episode 2:4)
  • ἰὼ δμωαί, δυσθρηνήτοισ ὡσ θρήνοισ ἔγκειμαι, τᾶσ οὐκ εὐμούσου μολπᾶσ βοὰν ἀλύροισ ἐλέγοισ, αἰαῖ, αἰαῖ, κηδείοισ οἴκτοισιν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests 1:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἀναχώρησιν αἱ δμωαὶ ἀπὸ μὲν σῖτον πολὺν ᾕρεον καὶ τράπεζαν καὶ δέπα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 20 1:1)
  • τοῖσι δὲ κήρυκεσ μὲν ὕδωρ ἐπὶ χεῖρασ ἔχευαν, σῖτον δὲ δμωαὶ παρενήνεον ἐν κανέοισι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 76 1:4)
  • ἐλπίσιν δὲ βόσκομαι ἄχη τέκνου κλύουσαν ἐσ πόλιν γόουσ οὐκ ἀξιώσειν, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ στέγησ ἔσω δμωαῖσ προθήσειν πένθοσ οἰκεῖον στένειν. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. a female slave taken in war

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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