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ἔρσα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔρσα

Structure: ἐρς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. dew, rain-drops
  2. young and tender animals

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔρσα έ̓ρσᾱ έ̓ρσαι
Genitive έ̓ρσης έ̓ρσαιν ἐρσῶν
Dative έ̓ρσῃ έ̓ρσαιν έ̓ρσαις
Accusative έ̓ρσαν έ̓ρσᾱ έ̓ρσᾱς
Vocative έ̓ρσα έ̓ρσᾱ έ̓ρσαι

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

  • ὑπνωμέναι δ’ ἔπιπτον ἑλενίων ἔπι, ἰών τε μελανόφυλλα συγκλῶσαι πτερὰ κρόκον θ’, ὃσ ἡλιῶδεσ εἰσ ὑφάσματα πέπλων σκιᾶσ εἴδωλον ἐξωμόργνυτο, ἑρ́σῃ δὲ θαλερὸσ ἐκτραφεὶσ ἀμάρακοσ λειμῶσι μαλακοὺσ ἐξέτεινεν αὐχένασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 87 3:1)
  • ἀποθανόντοσ δὲ Ἀκταίου Κέκροψ ἐκδέχεται τὴν ἀρχὴν θυγατρὶ συνοικῶν Ἀκταίου, καί οἱ γίνονται θυγατέρεσ μὲν Ἕρση καὶ Ἄγλαυροσ καὶ Πάνδροσοσ, υἱὸσ δὲ Ἐρυσίχθων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 12:3)
  • Ἀγλαύρῳ δὲ καὶ ταῖσ ἀδελφαῖσ Ἕρσῃ καὶ Πανδρόσῳ δοῦναί φασιν Ἀθηνᾶν Ἐριχθόνιον καταθεῖσαν ἐσ κιβωτόν, ἀπειποῦσαν ἐσ τὴν παρακαταθήκην μὴ πολυπραγμονεῖν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. dew

  2. young and tender animals

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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