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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

  • "παραπλησίωσ δὲ καὶ ταῖσ ἑξῆσ εἰσεφέρετο τήλινον, ἀμαράκινον, ἴρινον, πάντα διαφέροντα ταῖσ εὐωδίαισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:63)
  • ἐξέπνει δὲ μαλακὴν καὶ πραεῖαν αὔραν ὀσμὰσ ἀναφέρουσαν ἡδονῆσ τε θαυμασίασ καὶ κρᾶσιν, οἱάν ὁ οἶνοσ τοῖσ μεθυσκομένοισ, ἐμποιοῦσαν εὐωχούμεναι γὰρ αἱ ψυχαὶ ταῖσ εὐωδίαισ διεχέοντο τε καὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ ἐφιλοφρονοῦντο· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 36:1)
  • παραπλησίωσ δὲ καὶ ταῖσ ἑξῆσ εἰσεφέρετο τήλινον, ἀμαράκινον, ἴρινον, πάντα διαφέροντα ταῖσ εὐωδίαισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 30, chapter 26 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a sweet smell

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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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