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εἱρκτή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἱρκτή

Structure: εἱρκτ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ei(/rgw

Sense

  1. an inclosure, prison, the inner part of the house, the women's apartments

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εἱρκτή εἱρκτᾱ́ εἱρκταί
Genitive εἱρκτῆς εἱρκταῖν εἱρκτῶν
Dative εἱρκτῇ εἱρκταῖν εἱρκταῖς
Accusative εἱρκτήν εἱρκτᾱ́ εἱρκτᾱ́ς
Vocative εἱρκτή εἱρκτᾱ́ εἱρκταί

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

  • ὃσ ἔμ’ ἐν βρόχοισι τὰν τοῦ Βρομίου τάχα ξυνάψει, τὸν ἐμὸν δ’ ἐντὸσ ἔχει δώ‐ ματοσ ἤδη θιασώταν σκοτίαισ κρυπτὸν ἐν εἱρκταῖσ. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • Καὶ γὰρ ἔρρωται παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἥδε ἡ δόξα, φθαρτὰ μὲν εἶναι τὰ σώματα καὶ τὴν ὕλην οὐ μόνιμον αὐτῶν, τὰσ δὲ ψυχὰσ ἀθανάτουσ ἀεὶ διαμένειν, καὶ συμπλέκεσθαι μὲν ἐκ τοῦ λεπτοτάτου φοιτώσασ αἰθέροσ ὥσπερ εἱρκταῖσ τοῖσ σώμασιν ἰύγγί τινι φυσικῇ κατασπωμένασ, ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἀνεθῶσι τῶν κατὰ σάρκα δεσμῶν, οἱᾶ δὴ μακρᾶσ δουλείασ ἀπηλλαγμένασ τότε χαίρειν καὶ μετεώρουσ φέρεσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 200:1)
  • τί δ̓ ὁ Λακώνων Κεάδασ καὶ τὸ παρὰ Πέρσαισ οἴκημα μεστὸν τέφρασ, ἢ νὴ Δία εἴ τινασ κόρασ χαλεποὶ πατέρεσ, ὡσ ὁ τῶν ποιητῶν λόγοσ, ̔χαλκέων περιβόλων̓ ἐφρούρησαν εἱ̔ρκταῖσ̓. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 16:3)

Synonyms

  1. an inclosure

    • μυχός (the inmost part of a house, the women's apartments)

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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