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εὐωδία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐωδία

Structure: εὐωδι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from eu)w/dhs

Sense

  1. a sweet smell

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εὐωδία εὐωδίᾱ εὐωδίαι
Genitive εὐωδίᾱς εὐωδίαιν εὐωδιῶν
Dative εὐωδίᾱͅ εὐωδίαιν εὐωδίαις
Accusative εὐωδίᾱν εὐωδίᾱ εὐωδίᾱς
Vocative εὐωδίᾱ εὐωδίᾱ εὐωδίαι

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

  • προσφορὰ δικαίου λιπαίνει θυσιαστήριον, καὶ ἡ εὐωδία αὐτῆσ ἔναντι Ὑψίστου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 35:5)
  • δυνατωτάτη δὲ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ καὶ ἡ τῶν μύρων εὐωδία· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 29 2:3)
  • τοσαύτη διεχύθη ἀπὸ τῶν ῥόδων εὐωδία. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 70 4:2)
  • φθεγγομένου δέ, τὸν τόπον εὐωδία κατεῖχε, τοῦ στόματοσ ἥδιστον ἀποπνέοντοσ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 218)
  • ἦν δὲ λευκόσ, ὥσ φασιν ἡ δὲ λευκότησ ἐπεφοίνισσεν αὐτοῦ περὶ τὸ στῆθοσ μάλιστα καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον, ὅτι δὲ τοῦ χρωτὸσ ἥδιστον ἀπέπνει καὶ τὸ στόμα κατεῖχεν εὐωδία καὶ Τὴν σάρκα πᾶσαν, ὥστε πληροῦσθαι τοὺσ χιτωνίσκουσ, ἀνέγνωμεν ἐν ὑπομνήμασιν Ἀριστοξενείοισ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 4 2:2)
  • καὶ ὅμωσ ἐν τοσαύτῃ εὐωδίᾳ καὶ ἀφθονίᾳ τῶν ἀρωμάτων καὶ ἐν λιβανωτῷ παμπόλλῳ μόλισ αἱ ῥῖνεσ ἐπιλαθέσθαι μοι καὶ ἀπομαθεῖν ἤθελον τὴν κηλῖδα ἐκείνην τῆσ ὀσμῆσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ νῦν ὀλίγου δέω ναυτιᾶν ὑπομνησθεὶσ αὐτῆσ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 1:8)
  • "τί οὖν εἰ καὶ μύρον ἐνέγκαι τισ ἡμῖν, ἵνα καὶ εὐωδίᾳ ἑστιῴμεθα; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 34 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a sweet smell

Related

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

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