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ἔχιδνα?

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: echidna

Principal Part: ἔχιδνα ἐχίδνης

Structure: ἐχιδν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: ἔχις

Sense

  1. snake (traditionally held as a poisonous snake, viper, but perhaps also a constrictor)
  2. (figuratively) a treacherous person

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

  • ἣ δ ἔτεκ ἄλλο πέλωρον ἀμήχανον, οὐδὲν ἐοικὸς θνητοῖς ἀνθρώποις οὐδ ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσιν, σπῆι ἔνι γλαφυρῷ θείην κρατερόφρον Ἔχιδναν, ἥμισυ μὲν νύμφην ἑλικώπιδα καλλιπάρῃον, ἥμισυ δ αὖτε πέλωρον ὄφιν δεινόν τε μέγαν τε αἰόλον ὠμηστὴν ζαθέης ὑπὸ κεύθεσι γαίης. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 30:1)
  • ἀσπίδα μᾶλλον ἢ ἔχιδναν φιλῆσαι ἄμεινον. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 20:5)
  • ὦ ταυρόμορφον ὄμμα Κηφισοῦ πατρός, οἱάν ἔχιδναν τήνδ ἔφυσας ἢ πυρὸς δράκοντ ἀναβλέποντα φοινίαν φλόγα, ᾗ τόλμα πᾶς ἔνεστιν, οὐδ ἥσσων ἔφυ Γοργοῦς σταλαγμῶν, οἷς ἔμελλέ με κτενεῖν. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics1)
  • λέγεται δὲ ὅτι καὶ τὴν Ταρτάρου καὶ Γῆς Ἔχιδναν, ἣ τοὺς παριόντας συνήρπαζεν, ἐπιτηρήσας κοιμωμένην ἀπέκτεινεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 1 2:5)
  • ἦσαν μὲν οὖν οἱ καταγελῶντες τοῦ Χαιρημονιανοῦ ὡς πλάσμα μυθῶδες παραδεδεγμένου καὶ ἄπιστον, ἦσαν δὲ καὶ οἱ τὰς ἀντιπαθείας θρυλοῦντες, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ παρόντων ἦν ἀκούειν, ὅτι μαινόμενον ἐλέφαντα καταπαύει κριὸς ὀφθείς, ἔχιδναν δὲ φηγοῦ κλωνίον ἐὰν προσαγάγῃς καὶ θίγῃς, ἵστησιν: (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. snake

  2. a treacherous person

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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