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εὐνή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐνή εὐνῆς

Structure: εὐν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. bed
  2. bedding
  3. abode, layer
  4. marriage-bed
  5. grave
  6. (in the plural) stones thrown from a ship and used as anchors

Declension

First 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

  • παῖδεσ, πῆ με λιποῦσα πολύστονον ᾤχετο μήτηρ, ἣ χθιζόν σὺν ἐμοὶ θαλάμων κληῖδασ ἑλοῦσα ἔδραθεν ὑπνώουσα καὶ ἐσ μίαν ἤλυθεν εὐνήν; (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1161)
  • νεοττιὰν δὲ ἢ καλιὰν οὐκ ἐν ἑνὶ τόπῳ κατεστήσατο, ἀλλὰ πλάνητα τὴν πτῆσιν κατὰ τοὺσ Σκύθασ ἐπανῃρημένη, ὅπου ἂν τύχῃ ὑπὸ τῆσ νυκτὸσ καταληφθεῖσα, ἐκεῖ καὶ ἑστίαν καὶ εὐνὴν ποιεῖται. (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 9:1)
  • φοίβη δ’ αὖ Κοίου πολυήρατον ἦλθεν ἐσ εὐνήν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 42:1)
  • Ἐκ πολλοῦ, οἶμαι, ταῦτα εἰδὼσ ἐθήρευεν αὐτούσ, καὶ περὶ τὴν εὐνὴν ἀφανῆ δεσμὰ περιθεὶσ εἰργάζετο ἀπελθὼν ἐπὶ τὴν κάμινον· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:7)
  • τί δ’ οὐκ ἐᾷσ λύσαντά μ’ αὐτὴν ὦ Σκύθα πεσεῖν ἐσ εὐνὴν καὶ γαμήλιον λέχοσ; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, iambics24)

Synonyms

  1. bed

  2. bedding

  3. abode

  4. marriage-bed

  5. grave

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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