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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

  • 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 ἑρ́σᾳ. (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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