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εἴρη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἴρη

Structure: εἰρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)rw=

Sense

  1. a place of assembly

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εἴρη εί̓ρᾱ εῖ̓ραι
Genitive εί̓ρᾱς εί̓ραιν εἰρῶν
Dative εί̓ρᾱͅ εί̓ραιν εί̓ραις
Accusative εί̓ρᾱν εί̓ρᾱ εί̓ρᾱς
Vocative εί̓ρᾱ εί̓ρᾱ εῖ̓ραι

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

  • ὅθεν οὐ πάντα πάντων ἐστίν, ἀλλὰ δεῖ τῷ Πυθικῷ γράμματι πειθόμενον αὑτὸν καταμαθεῖν, εἶρα χρῆσθαι πρὸσ ἓν ὃ πέφυκε, καὶ μὴ πρὸσ ἄλλον ἄλλοτε βίου ζῆλον ἕλκειν καὶ παραβιάζεσθαι τὴν φύσιν ἐν ἁρ́μασιν ἵπποσ ἐν δ’ ἀρότρῳ βοῦσ, παρὰ ναῦν δ’ ἰθύει τάχιστα δελφίσ, κάπρῳ δὲ βουλεύοντα φόνον κύνα χρὴ τλάθυμον ἐξευρεῖν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 13 1:1)
  • τοῦτον μὲν δὴ λέγουσι καὶ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ὕστερον θῦσαι καταδρομαῖσ θυσίαν τρίτην, Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ ‐ ἐπῄει γὰρ Υἁκίνθια ‐ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐν τῇ Εἴρᾳ τεσσαράκοντα ἐποιήσαντο ἡμερῶν σπονδάσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 5:4)
  • δεσπότησ προσεκάθητο τῇ Εἴρᾳ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 20 16:1)
  • ἑάλω δὲ ἡ Εἶρα καὶ ὁ πόλεμοσ ὁ δεύτεροσ Λακεδαιμονίων καὶ Μεσσηνίων τέλοσ ἔσχεν Ἀθηναίοισ ἄρχοντοσ Αὐτοσθένουσ, ἔτει πρώτῳ τῆσ ὀγδόησ τε καὶ εἰκοστῆσ Ὀλυμπιάδοσ, ἣν ἐνίκα Χίονισ Λάκων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a place of assembly

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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