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ἔρσα?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: ersa

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 ἔρσα ἔρσαι
Genitive ἔρσης ἔρσαιν ἐρσῶν
Dative ἔρσῃ ἔρσαιν ἔρσαις
Accusative ἔρσαν ἔρσα ἔρσας
Vocative ἔρσα ἔρσα ἔρσαι

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

  • διὸ καὶ τὴν δρόσον ὁ Ἀλκμὰν Διὸς θυγατέρα καὶ Σελήνης προσεῖπε ποιήσας Διὸς θυγάτηρ ἔρσα τρέφει καὶ δίας Σελάνας: (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 24 2:1)
  • "διὸ πρὸς σὲ τρέψομαι μᾶλλον, ὦ φίλε Θέων λέγεις γὰρ ὑμῖν, ἐξηγούμενος ταυτὶ τὰ Ἀλκμᾶνος Διὸς θυγάτηρ Ἔρσα τρέφει καὶ δίας Σελάνας, ὅτι νῦν τὸν ἀέρα καλεῖ Δία καί φησιν αὐτὸν ὑπὸ τῆς σελήνης καθυγραινόμενον εἰς δρόσους τρέπεσθαι. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 2532)
  • "τοῦτο δὲ καὶ τὸν ἀέρα πάσχοντα θεωροῦμεν δροσοβολεῖ γὰρ ταῖς πανσελήνοις μάλιστα διατηκόμενος, ὥς που καὶ Ἀλκμὰν ὁ μελοποιὸς αἰνιττόμενος τὴν δρόσον ἀέρος θυγατέρα καὶ σελήνης οἱᾶ φησί Διὸς θυγάτηρ ἔρσα τρέφει καὶ δίας σελάνας. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 6:30)
  • ἐμοὶ δ ἄφαρ ἔζεσεν αἷμα, καὶ χρόα φοινίχθην ὑπὸ τὤλγεος ὡς ῥόδον ἑρ´σᾳ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 11)

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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