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ἐλαφηβολία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαφηβολία

Structure: ἐλαφηβολι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from e)lafhbo/los

Sense

  1. a shooting of deer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐλαφηβολία ἐλαφηβολίᾱ ἐλαφηβολίαι
Genitive ἐλαφηβολίᾱς ἐλαφηβολίαιν ἐλαφηβολιῶν
Dative ἐλαφηβολίᾱͅ ἐλαφηβολίαιν ἐλαφηβολίαις
Accusative ἐλαφηβολίᾱν ἐλαφηβολίᾱ ἐλαφηβολίᾱς
Vocative ἐλαφηβολίᾱ ἐλαφηβολίᾱ ἐλαφηβολίαι

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

  • ὥσ φησι Χάρησ ὁ στρατηγόσ, τοῦ προτέρου μηνόσ, εἴπερ Ἐλαφηβολιών ἐστι Μουνιχιῶνοσ πρότεροσ. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 92 1:3)
  • Ἐλαφηβολίων γὰρ ὄντων, εἰσ Υἅμπολιν ἐπὶ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἀφικνουμένουσ ἡμᾶσ εἱστία Φίλων ὁ ἰατρὸσ ἐκ παρασκευῆσ τινοσ, ὡσ ἐφαίνετο, νεανικῆσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a shooting of deer

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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