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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

  • ὡσ κιννάμωμον καὶ ἀσπάλαθοσ ἀρωμάτων δέδωκα ὀσμὴν καὶ ὡσ σμύρνα ἐκλεκτὴ διέδωκα εὐωδίαν, ὡσ χαλβάνη καὶ ὄνυξ καὶ στακτὴ καὶ ὡσ λιβάνου ἀτμὶσ ἐν σκηνῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 24:15)
  • δὸσ εὐωδίαν καὶ μνημόσυνον σεμιδάλεωσ καὶ λίπανον προσφορὰν ὡσ μὴ ὑπάρχων. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 38:11)
  • ἐξελέξατο αὐτὸν ἀπὸ παντὸσ ζῶντοσ προσαγαγεῖν κάρπωσιν Κυρίῳ, θυμίαμα καὶ εὐωδίαν εἰσ μνημόσυνον, ἐξιλάσκεσθαι περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 45:16)
  • Ἱκέσιοσ δ’ ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ Ὕλησ τὸ λευκόιον φησι μεσότητά τινα ἔχειν ἐν τῷ στύφειν, πολὺ δ’ ἀρίστην εὐωδίαν καὶ δυναμένην τέρπειν, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ ὀλίγιστον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 28 1:5)
  • καὶ ἅμα λέγων ἀναπετάσασ τὴν λοπάδα τοσαύτην εὐωδίαν παρέσχε τῷ συμποσίῳ, ὡσ ἀληθῶσ τινα τῶν παρόντων εἰπεῖν τοῦ καὶ κινυμένοιο Διὸσ ποτὶ χαλκοβατὲσ δῶ ἔμπησ ἐσ γαῖάν τε καὶ οὐρανὸν ἵκετ’ αὐτμή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 70 4:1)

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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