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ἐνόρχης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνόρχης ἐνόρχου

Structure: ἐνορχ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: = e)/norxos, Ar.

Sense

  1. a he-goat

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐνόρχης ἐνόρχᾱ ἐνόρχαι
Genitive ἐνόρχου ἐνόρχαιν ἐνορχῶν
Dative ἐνόρχῃ ἐνόρχαιν ἐνόρχαις
Accusative ἐνόρχην ἐνόρχᾱ ἐνόρχᾱς
Vocative ἐνόρχα ἐνόρχᾱ ἐνόρχαι

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

  • ἔχε νυν ἐπὶ τούτοισ τουτονὶ τὸν ὀκλαδίαν, καὶ παῖδ’ ἐνόρχην, ὅσπερ οἴσει τόνδε σοι· (Aristotle, Episode 2:9)
  • κἂν Διὶ θύῃ βασιλεῖ κριόν, βασιλεύσ ἐστ’ ὀρχίλοσ ὄρνισ, ᾧ προτέρῳ δεῖ τοῦ Διὸσ αὐτοῦ σέρφον ἐνόρχην σφαγιάζειν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme11)
  • ὅμωσ δὲ δὶσ ἢ τρὶσ τοῦ ἔτουσ ἀνιόντεσ ἐπιλεξάμενοι τράγον ἔνορχην θύουσί μοι πολλῆσ τῆσ κινάβρασ ἀπόζοντα, εἶτ’ εὐωχοῦνται τὰ κρέα, ποιησάμενοί με τῆσ εὐφροσύνησ μάρτυρα καὶ ψιλῷ τιμήσαντεσ τῷ κρότῳ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 10:10)

Synonyms

  1. a he-goat

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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