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φερνή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φερνή

Structure: φερν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. that which is brought by the wife, a dowry, portion, a dower, bridal gifts

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

  • φερνάσ γε πολέμου καὶ δορὸσ λαβὼν γέρασ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 1:36)
  • ἀλλ’ ὀχημάτων ἔξω πορεύεθ’ ἃσ φέρω φερνὰσ κόρῃ, καὶ πέμπετ’ ἐσ μέλαθρον εὐλαβούμενοι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 1:3)
  • ἀρχὰσ τῆσδε γῆσ ἔδωκέ μοι Ἐτεοκλέησ παῖσ σόσ, γάμων φερνὰσ διδοὺσ Αἵμονι κόρησ τε λέκτρον Ἀντιγόνησ σέθεν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 1:5)
  • Ἄργουσ δ’ Ὀρέστην, Μενέλεωσ, ἐά κρατεῖν, ἐλθὼν δ’ ἄνασσε Σπαρτιάτιδοσ χθονόσ, φερνὰσ ἔχων δάμαρτοσ, ἥ σε μυρίοισ πόνοισ διδοῦσα δεῦρ’ ἀεὶ διήνυσεν. (Euripides, episode, iambic 4:1)
  • αὐλεῖν δ’ αὐτοῖσ Ἀντιγενείδαν, ἀργᾶν δ’ ᾄδειν καὶ κιθαρίζειν Κηφισόδοτον τὸν Ἀχαρνῆθεν μέλπειν δ’ ᾠδαῖσ τοτὲ μὲν Σπάρτην τὴν εὐρύχορον, τοτὲ δ’ αὖ Θήβασ τὰσ ἑπταπύλουσ, τὰσ ἁρμονίασ μεταβάλλοντασ, φερνάσ τε λαβεῖν δύο μὲν ξανθῶν ἵππων ἀγέλασ αἰγῶν τ’ ἀγέλην χρυσοῦν τε σάκοσ φιάλην τε λεπαστὴν χιόνοσ τε πρόχουν κέρχνων τε χύτραν βολβῶν τε σιρὸν δωδεκάπηχυν καὶ πουλυπόδων ἑκατόμβην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 7 1:3)

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

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