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εὐνατήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐνατήριον εὐνατήριου

Structure: εὐνατηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a sleeping-place, bed-chamber

Declension

Second declension

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

  • οὐ γὰρ ἐπεγάμει πόσει πόσιν, μένει δ’ ἐν οἴκοισ ὑγιὲσ εὐνατήριον. (Euripides, episode, iambic 12:13)
  • ταῦτα δὴ λιποῦσ’ ἱκάνω χρυσεοστόλμουσ δόμουσ καὶ τὸ Δαρείου τε κἀμὸν κοινὸν εὐνατήριον. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees1)
  • ὅπωσ δ’ ἐτέλεσε τοῦτ’, ἐπενθοροῦσ’ ἄνω καθέζετ’ ἐν μέσοισιν εὐνατηρίοισ, καὶ δακρύων ῥήξασα θερμὰ νάματα ἔλεξεν· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, dialogue 1:11)

Synonyms

  1. a sleeping-place

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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