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ἐλεγεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεγεία

Structure: ἐλεγει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. an elegy

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

  • "ἦν γὰρ ταῦτα, εἴ γε μέμνημαι, τὰ ἐλεγεῖα· (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 40:7)
  • καὶ μὴν ἐλεγεῖά γε ᾄσῃ μάλα περιπαθῶσ ὑπὸ ταύτῃ τῇ δικέλλῃ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 45:7)
  • ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ ἐλεγεῖα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 302)
  • ὁ δ’ ἄχθεται αὐτὸσ ὁ θύων τῷ κατακωλύοντι καὶ εὐθὺσ ἔλεξ’ ἐλεγεῖα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 66 3:4)
  • κατέλιπε γὰρ αὐτοῖσ ἐλεγεῖα ποιήσασ, ὧν ἀκούοντεσ παιδεύονται πρὸσ ἀνδρείαν· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 143:2)

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

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