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ἑκυρά

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑκυρά

Structure: ἑκυρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a mother-in-law, step-mother

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

  • ἡ δ’ οὐ δίδωσιν οὐδέ φησιν ἔχειν, ὅπωσ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ ἐπισταμένη τὸ τῆσ ἑκυρᾶσ μητρυιῶδεσ, ἂν ὕστερόν τι συμβαίνῃ τραχύτερον, μὴ ἀγανακτῇ μηδὲ δυσκολαίνῃ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 35 1:1)
  • Ἥρη, Ἐλειθυιῶν μήτηρ, Ἥρη τε τελείη, καὶ Ζεῦ, γινομένοισ ξυνὸσ ἅπασι πατήρ, ὠδῖνασ νεύσαιτ’ Ἀντωνίῃ ἵλαοι ἐλθεῖν πρηείασ, μαλακαῖσ χερσὶ σὺν Ἠπιόνησ, ὄφρα κε γηθήσειε πόσισ, μήτηρ θ’, ἑκυρά τε. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2441)
  • ἰδοῦσα δ’ αὐτὰσ προσιούσασ ἡ τοῦ Μαρκίου γυνὴ Οὐολουμνία πλησίον καθημένη τῆσ ἑκυρᾶσ ἐθαύμασέ τε καὶ εἶπε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 40 1:3)
  • Ῥούθη δὲ ἄλφιτα λαβοῦσα παρ’ αὐτοῦ ἐφύλαξε τῇ ἑκυρᾷ καὶ παρῆν ὀψὲ κομίζουσα μετὰ τῶν σταχύων· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 422:1)
  • ἡ δέ, πρὸσ οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀντιλέγειν τῶν ὑπὸ τῆσ ἑκυρᾶσ κελευομένων ὅσιον ἡγεῖτο, παραγίνεται καὶ παραυτίκα μὲν λανθάνει τὸν Βόαζον βαθέωσ καθυπνωκότα, περιεγερθεὶσ δὲ περὶ μέσην νύκτα καὶ αἰσθόμενοσ τῆσ ἀνθρώπου παρακατακειμένησ ἀνέκρινε τίσ εἰή. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 426:1)
  • Ταῦτα τῇ ἑκυρᾷ δηλωσάσησ εὐθυμία κατεῖχεν αὐτὰσ ἐν ἐλπίδι τοῦ πρόνοιαν ἕξειν αὐτῶν Βόαζον γενομένασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 430:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mother-in-law

Related

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

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