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εὐλή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐλή

Structure: εὐλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a worm or maggot

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐλή εὐλᾱ́ εὐλαί
Genitive εὐλῆς εὐλαῖν εὐλῶν
Dative εὐλῇ εὐλαῖν εὐλαῖς
Accusative εὐλήν εὐλᾱ́ εὐλᾱ́ς
Vocative εὐλή εὐλᾱ́ εὐλαί

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

  • ὁμοῦ καὶ δυσχεραίνειν, ὅτι πολλὰ νοσήματα καὶ πάθη καθάπερ εὐλὰσ καὶ σκώληκασ ἐντίκτουσι ταῖσ ψυχαῖσ παροῦσαι. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 1 8:1)
  • ἐφλέγμαινε, Περδίκκαισ καὶ Μελεάγροισ καὶ Σελεύκοισ καὶ Ἀντιγόνοισ, ὥσπερ πνεύμασι θερμοῖσ ἔτι καὶ σφυγμοῖσ διᾴττουσι καὶ διαφερομένοισ τέλοσ δ’ ἀπομαραινομένη καὶ φθίνουσα περὶ αὑτὴν οἱο͂ν εὐλὰσ τινασ ἀνέζεσεν ἀγεννῶν βασιλέων καὶ ἡγεμόνων ψυχορραγούντων. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 4 5:1)
  • τέλοσ δ’ ἀπομαραινομένη καὶ φθίνουσα περὶ αὑτὴν οἱο͂ν εὐλάσ τινασ ἀνέζεσεν ἀγεννῶν βασιλέων καὶ ἡγεμόνων ψυχορραγούντων. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 4 2:1)
  • ἀλλὰ μάλ’ αἰνῶσ δείδω μή μοι τόφρα Μενοιτίου ἄλκιμον υἱὸν μυῖαι καδδῦσαι κατὰ χαλκοτύπουσ ὠτειλὰσ εὐλὰσ ἐγγείνωνται, ἀεικίσσωσι δὲ νεκρόν, ἐκ δ’ αἰὼν πέφαται, κατὰ δὲ χρόα πάντα σαπήῃ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 19 2:9)

Synonyms

  1. a worm or maggot

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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