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ἔγχουσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγχουσα

Structure: ἐγχους (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. alkanet

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 ἐμὲ τοίνυν νόμιζε, εἰπεῖν ἔφη ὁ Ἰσχόμαχοσ, ὦ γύναι, μήτε ψιμυθίου μήτε ἐγχούσησ χρώματι ἥδεσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ τῷ σῷ, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οἱ θεοὶ ἐποίησαν ἵπποισ μὲν ἵππουσ, βουσὶ δὲ βοῦσ ἥδιστον, προβάτοισ δὲ πρόβατα, οὕτω καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἀνθρώπου σῶμα καθαρὸν οἰόνται ἥδιστον εἶναι· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 10 8:1)

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

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