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δράκαινα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δράκαινα δράκαινης

Structure: δρακαιν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: dra/kwn의 여성형, 참고) La/kaina

Sense

  1. a shedragon

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 τὴν Ἄρεωσ παῖδ’ Ἁρμονίαν, δάμαρτ’ ἐμήν, δράκων δρακαίνησ <φύσιν> ἔχουσαν ἀγρίαν ἄξω ’πὶ βωμοὺσ καὶ τάφουσ Ἑλληνικούσ, ἡγούμενοσ λόγχαισιν· (Euripides, episode 6:15)
  • "καὶ γὰρ τοῦτο δὴ τοὐνταῦθα πρεσβύτατον ὂν χρόνῳ τε δόξῃ τε κλεινότατον ὑπὸ θηρίου χαλεποῦ δρακαίνησ πολὺν χρόνον ἔρημον γενέσθαι καὶ ἀπροσπέλαστον ἱστοροῦσιν, οὐκ ὀρθῶσ τὴν ἀργίαν ἀλλ’ ἀνάπαλιν λαμβάνοντεσ· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 8 1:7)
  • ὕπνοσ πόνοσ τε κύριοι συνωμόται δεινῆσ δρακαίνησ ἐξεκήραναν μένοσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 9:17)

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

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